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...uprising, tens of thousands of Shi'ites and Kurds were killed by the raw power of Saddam's helicopters and tanks and secret police. What was different this time? No Saddam. The American army had come ashore to disarm and depose him. After the sword, it provided the shield to allow 8 million Iraqis to revel in their first exercise of democratic self-governance...
Ever since a masked actor in ancient Greece was called “hypokrites” for his ability to make audiences believe he was somebody else—kings, czars, congressional candidates, and even that well-known anti-Pharisee spokesman Jesus Christ have carried the word like a sword, eager to slice an opponent for the ultimate political sin: disingenuousness. After all, once people are convinced that their leader is a phony—that the right words are followed by the wrong actions—what can he possibly say to redeem himself...
...lived into old age - say 45? As a young man he amassed a police record worthy of a rap star: arrests, citations, imprisonments, most of them connected to brawls and knife fights. In May 1606, when he was around 34, he killed a man with a sword, in a fight over a wager placed on a tennis match. Badly wounded, facing a murder charge and a sentence of death, he fled Rome, the scene of his early triumphs as a painter. After a four-year struggle to return, he died, possibly of typhus, on a Tuscan beach. Although the papal...
...point, Zeta-Jones pulled Ferrante and Gale Rosen off stage and rumpled their hair to show her acting “skills.” She sang, she tap danced, she sword-fought, and 20 minutes later, she was presented with a small brass hasty pudding pot for her lasting contribution to the world of entertainment...
...ahold of us, and they expect an immediate response," notes Michael Schaffer, a classroom veteran who teaches AP courses at Central Academy in Des Moines, Iowa. "This e-mail--'How's my kid doing?'--could fill my day. That's hyperbole. But it's a two-edged sword here, and unfortunately it's cutting to the other side, and parents are making demands on us that are unreasonable. Yeah, they're concerned about their kids. But I'm concerned about 150 kids. I don't have time during the day to let the parent know when...