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BUSH WAS THRUST INTO THE HORROR of 9/11, a situation that any President, Republican or Democrat, would have struggled with. It's very easy three years later to criticize the way Bush handled foreign affairs, but at the time we were a nation that was shocked and scared. Bush is a President in a no-win situation. No matter what he does, people will criticize and see fit to condemn him. He may not be the perfect President. He has made mistakes. But no one else can truthfully say he could have done better than Bush...
...want as President an amiable fellow who does not accept that politics is about compromise. I would rather have an effective President whom I despise as a person than a wrongheaded one who is a good fishing buddy. David P. Vernon Tucson, Arizona, U.S. Bush was thrust into the horror of 9/11, a situation that any President, Republican or Democrat, would have struggled with. It's very easy three years later to criticize the way Bush handled foreign affairs, but at the time we were a nation that was shocked and scared. Bush is a President...
...even if it sometimes feels like a staged reading of a new play that is still a revision away from completion.) Carnegie, along with Lizzy and precocious nine-year-old Wendy, is quick to fall under Lan's spell. They love her cooking and hang on Lan's bitter horror stories of life during the Cultural Revolution. As Lan insinuates herself into the family, she seems not to be usurping Blondie so much as taking her rightful place, exactly as Blondie feared. She watches Lan with Carnegie and Lizzy and Wendy, and finds a scene more natural than...
...opens in hell, in the kind of hangover that is most quickly cured by getting drunk again. Her career - "something in cardboard" - is hanging by a thread, her grasp on reality starting to slip. Her loving family, in particular her brother Simon, can only watch her self-destruction in horror. Kennedy plumbs the mind-crushing depths of alcoholism and the painful bends of drying out, but allows the blessings Hannah finds in the company of fellow drunks: "We study to move like wirewalkers, all mesmerising tensions and hot sweat, we cut away our languages, our names, and in return...
Every day in Iraq seems to bring a new horror. On Tuesday, for example, it was 47 killed by a car bomb in Baghdad, 11 slain by another in Baquba, 8 dead in a clash between U.S. troops and insurgents in Ramadi - and those were just the major incidents. U.S. casualties have risen every month since the June hand-over of political authority to the interim government of prime minister Iyad Allawi, and the pattern of confrontation is not encouraging. In April, the U.S. military fought insurgents in Fallujah, then battled Moqtada Sadr's men in Najaf in June...