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...Well, what happened in the past when bad things happened to good Presidents? Did F.D.R. apologize for Pearl Harbor - a military attack on a military base by a military force already at war? No. He placed blame entirely on the empire of Japan, then promised to reduce it to rubble. Which...
...Spanish citizen, I am appalled by the persistent conclusion by some that the terrorists won the Spanish elections [March 29]. The bomb attacks simply set in motion a series of events that added up to defeat for Prime Minister Jos? Mar?a Aznar, beginning with his government's effort to blame the bombings on the Basque terrorists of ETA and to rule out al-Qaeda. This arrogance and cynicism insulted the very essence of democracy by blotting out the truth. If ETA had been responsible for the attacks, Aznar's party would have won, because the majority of Spaniards endorse...
...this might have lent Strange Bedfellows complexity and subtlety. Instead, it just gives the quintessentially blokey star of Crocodile Dundee the chance to camp it up; Hoges in hotpants! How does a comic pitch this potentially lively fall so dead in the water? It's tempting to blame young writer-director Dean Murphy. He has a sunny knack for observing gossip ricochet around a country town, but he lacks the worldly insight and satirical snap of a Wilder. When Vince and Ralph are instructed how to walk the talk ("Marilyn Monroe crossed with a bit of penguin"), it's like...
...prosecution had wasted our time on all this. The case was supposed to last three months, but it stretched on and on, through 48 witnesses, more than 700 exhibits and 12,000-plus pages of testimony. Eventually, some jurors essentially tuned out, and, really, it was hard to blame them...
...CONTEXT: George Bush has not, in fact, raised the gas tax. As a candidate, Governor Bush vowed to lower it, but he has not yet introduced any decrease. Kerry is trying to blame Bush for record-high gas prices, now more than $2 a gallon in California, but a President has limited short-term tools for steering energy markets. The Kerry campaign reached the $24 billion figure by calculating that gas prices have increased about 24¢ since the beginning of the year, and each penny increase results in consumers paying an additional $1 billion a year (a standard Energy Department...