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...still hesitant about supporting Obama, despite their disapproval of recent Republican policies and an unpopular Republican President. But it also carries a risk for McCain, because at a time of great economic anxiety, when voters claim to be eager to hear positive solutions, it is fundamentally negative in tone - a pose that McCain has been less comfortable with in the past...
...says he doesn't mind the smell of corpses. "A trifle on the sweet side perhaps, a trifle heady, but how infinitely preferable to what the living emit, their feet, teeth, armpits, arses, sticky foreskins and frustrated ovules." Fiennes enumerates these body parts with slow precision, and in a tone of crescendoing disgust. It might be a litany of curses, a bill of criminal charges brought against a species about to be condemned...
...Scully take their work and themselves. On TV, Duchovny settled quickly into his role as an obsessive plodder; Anderson's gravity served as a rebuke to all the actresses her age who spoke in baby talk and aspired to nothing higher than Baywatch. The movie continues that dark, quiet tone, which means that today's moviegoers will have to forgo expectations of wisecracking heroes and snarling psychopaths, and to take seriously a couple of anguished folks who look and behave with the tired tenseness of anchors on C-SPAN...
...feel this for reasons as many and varied as strings on a harp. Our successful fight for independence. Our defense of freedom everywhere. Our shame over Indian wars, slavery and bigotry. Our pride in battle victories, commercial success and world leadership. But the Preamble to our Constitution sets the tone that makes us unique: "... in order to form a more perfect union." This simple phrase helps Americans recognize our achievements, our imperfections and our constitutional commitment to improve. We are not perfect. But we keep working at it. Bill Hayes, HARTLAND...
Until they do, Serbia is not entirely off the hook with the tribunal. Mladic, after all, was physically present at Srebrenica on the eve of the massacre, and his indictment is every bit as damning as Karadzic's. Still, the Karadzic arrest has set a new tone in Belgrade. Says Natasa Kandic, a human-rights activist who has spent many years researching war crimes in former Yugoslavia: "This is a breakthrough moment for Serbia...