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...good in every way, except he's not a woman." SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, commenting on John Roberts, Bush's nominee to replace her on the high court...
President Bush's choice of a successor to Justice O'Connor can go a long way toward fostering oneness in this country and bolstering the President's flagging popularity. Democrats and Republicans alike, except for extremists on both sides, admired her flexibility in the court's contentious decisions. Justice O'Connor eschewed rigidity in favor of nuance in each controversial case, and our country has been the better...
...despite sometimes painfully plain prose. This time, the plot gets even better. Her technique works according to Chekhov’s formula—if there’s a gun in the first book, you can be sure there will be a death by the sixth—except J.K. Rowling doesn’t do guns; the clues she plants all have to do with biography, motive, and character. Earlier books had more fight scenes. In this one, Rowling pays lots of attention to questions like, “Why is Voldemort evil?” and none...
...have heard from several new donors and children, including some whom I have since introduced to each other. The subjects of the book have all responded, except for a couple, including Michael the Nobelist’s Son. They all like it, and think it tells their stories truly. Even folks who I thought might not be so happy about it like...
...9/11, the U.S. was rudely injected into a Muslim civil war--the jihadists are intent on conquering the entire region and re-establishing an ancient caliphate--except that only the jihadist side was really fighting. By taking the fight to the Arab/ Islamic heartland, the U.S. has forced Muslims to commit. The most remarkable effect of the wars to liberate Afghanistan and Iraq is that, whereas on 9/11 we stood alone against the terrorists, today there are two large and energized Muslim populations--with legitimate governments building armed forces--engaged in the same struggle against jihadism...