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...United States to make sure that the new government and post-war policies keep one focus: encouraging economic growth. Freeing Iraq of a murderous tyrant is only the first half of the fight. After that we have to free them of the policies, bureaucracy and socialism that have wrought untold economic devastation...
Even though Grammy night is already two weeks removed, the annual awards show’s ill-wrought performances by P. Diddy and Kid Rock still make me cringe. It’s too bad that the Grammies—which should be a showcase of the best talent in pop culture—have become just a sad confirmation of the fact that in the past several years, popular music has taken a severe turn for the worse. There was a time, not long ago, when the Grammies—and the music they awarded— didn?...
...crowd that night didn’t need a reminder of the special effort Merchant had wrought. Whether the fans fully knew it or not, the deafening chant of “Brady! Brady! Brady!” at game’s end was the appropriate expression of gratitude for a performance never seen in over a century of Harvard basketball...
...student (Audrey Tautou), is deliriously in love with Loic, a handsome, if married, cardiologist (Samuel Le Bihan). Flowers are presented, endearments murmured, trysts arranged. It does not matter to Angelique when romantic joy turns to anguish. She will stand by her man. It does matter that the tense, well-wrought story we have been watching is a total fantasy. It exists only in the love-addled imagination of its heroine...
...White House sought to underscore the President's description of the wider benefits of ousting Saddam by touting his Thursday meeting with Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai as Exhibit A in the case for regime-change. The urbane, moderate Karzai personifies the changes wrought in Afghanistan by the U.S. ouster of the Taliban - in which a brutal, mediaevalist regime was destroyed, allowing Afghans to hope for an end to more than two decades of civil...