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...time. As the vice-presidential running mate of the son of his old boss, he was beginning to focus on problems the Clinton Administration had been unable to solve. High among them was Iraq's continued defiance of U.N. resolutions requiring it to disarm. And when he broached the topic on the campaign trail, Cheney sounded ever more hawkish. He had been outraged by Saddam's attempt in 1993 to assassinate former President Bush in Kuwait, and he thought the short bombing campaign after Iraq kicked out the U.N. inspectors in 1998 was a joke. "We have swept that problem...
...find the Holy Grail of House intellectual community in their inboxes will likely be disappointed. Only a small fraction of the postings to these lists—14 percent in Quincy, 18 percent in Cabot—were comprised of five or more e-mails on the same topic. Within these “threads,” real discussion and debate are possible. But the topics that attract the most attention on House lists tend to be the most humorous. In February, the longest thread on Cabot-Open was 26 posts with the subject “odd goings...
...also continually talked about improving undergraduate advising—a topic frequently featured in his annual letters...
Iris, meanwhile, is married to Hampton, a fastidious African-American investment banker and a superb provider but one who is ever alert to racial slights, real or imagined, and who looks down his nose a bit at Iris, a bookish idler who can't even settle on a topic for her thesis. She surrenders to adultery in part because Daniel's love promises a refuge from judgments, expectations, even the workaday struggle to be black in a white town. Daniel and Iris are given to reckless sex--in his office, at her house when her husband is away...
...murdering a fellow activist (Laura Linney) in this issue movie from Alan Parker (Angela’s Ashes). Once Gale reaches death row, he gives his side of the story to an ambitious reporter (Kate Winslet). The film’s trio of Oscar darlings and hot social topic should lend some class and relevance, respectively, to the reportedly twist-heavy story. The Life of David Gale screens...