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...assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it. It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war ... and I don't think any oil shipments will stop." PAT ROBERTSON,American televangelist, referring to Hugo Chavez, President of oil-rich Venezuela and a vocal critic of the U.S., on his cable-TV show. Robertson apologized two days later...
...quiet countryside. In the weeks since Cindy Sheehan set up Camp Casey there are several new encampments along the road. Camp George, run by the Crawford American Legion complete with a hot dog and lemonade stand, is down the hill from Sheehan's original campsite. Camp Reality, manned by vocal pro-Bush supporters, sits across the road from Camp Casey, and a mile or so away the peaks of a huge Camelot-like tent shades is Camp Casey II with its new field of crosses, a chow line, portable toilets, media tables, yoga tent and stage. A local landowner offered...
With a bracing lack of melodrama, Canadian Leslie Feist whisper-sings her way through a classic fadeaway ballad. The instrumentation is spare, and the lyrics are of the "Don't you wish/ We could forget that kiss" variety, but Feist's warm vocal performance makes failing relationships sound so romantic. --By Josh Tyrangiel
...Middle East that Krauthammer noted with such satisfaction would, if they resulted in free and fair elections, probably return an overwhelming victory for anti-U.S. Islamic parties. Krauthammer claimed, "We have recruited tens of millions of Afghan and Iraqi Muslims" to our cause. Why, then, is there a vocal movement even among Iraq's long-oppressed Shi'ites to remove U.S. forces so Iraq can get on with forming an Islamic republic? Why, then, is there sufficient support to fuel an insurgency that shows no signs of waning? Why, then, are nearly all of Afghanistan's provinces outside Kabul...
...Middle East that Krauthammer noted with such satisfaction would, if they resulted in free and fair elections, probably return an overwhelming victory for anti-U.S. Islamic parties. Krauthammer claimed, "We have recruited tens of millions of Afghan and Iraqi Muslims" to our cause. Why, then, is there a vocal movement even among Iraq's long-oppressed Shi'ites to remove U.S. forces so Iraq can get on with forming an Islamic republic? Why, then, is there sufficient support to fuel an insurgency that shows no signs of waning? Why, then, are nearly all of Afghanistan 's provinces outside Kabul...