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...about none of the above? It should be obvious by now that the Bush Administration's attempt to inflate a serious long-term conflict with the forces of radical Islam into a Global War on Terror has been a monumental strategic mistake. But there was little sympathy for figuring out an intelligent way to disengage from Iraq and refocus attention on the broader conflict. My esteemed colleague William Kristol, whose latest column appears on the next page, easily won the crowd with his argument favoring Bush's New Way Forward in Iraq, though not without a few bumps. Kristol, normally...
...answer came seconds later. A huge explosion blew a hole in a bakery, sending body parts and bread showering onto the pavement outside. Three Israelis were killed and two others wounded by the blast. Responsibility for the terror attack was immediately claimed by three different Palestinian militant groups, one of them - Islamic Jihad - identifying the bomber as Mohammed Siksik, 21, from Gaza...
Hunkered down in their apartments decorated like shrines, cinder-block walls adorned with pictures of children, Martin Luther King Jr. and Jesus, the mothers of Cabrini-Green feel fear every time their children go out. The other night, Diana's son Charles ran home crying in terror after missing his ride from class. When he arrived, Diana had already phoned the police. "I was crying my heart out. A child has to be home at a certain time," Diana recalled. Even before nightfall, when radio rhythms are punctuated by gunshots, children cannot play outside. A neighbor child, Angela Grant...
...Learning the details of the daily life of the grackle may not be essential for all of us, but Gayle suggests that we do keep a close eye on the skies. Years ago, grackles were used as sentinels in coal mines, Gayle said, and with today's terror and health threats they still serve as an early warning system. Hence the Congress Avenue shutdown was, in Gayle's opinion, appropriate. A more geographically widespread grackle kill in the city might have indicated a potential avian influenza outbreak, Gayle said...
...Uproars like one surrounding Hounddog also arose in 1978, when 12-year-old Brooke Shields played a child prostitute in Pretty Baby, and in 1997, around a remake of Lolita. "The controversy comes from a societal terror that we have," Hounddog's writer-director Deborah Kampmeier said after the premiere. "A lot of people think we're gonna die if we tell this secret." The secret to which Kampmeier refers is that of sexual abuse of children. At the screening, representatives of the Rape Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN) took the stage and delivered the statistic that...