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Seen through the eyes of these two ordinary women, Iraq's victims and villains are richly human, with clear and comprehensible motives. Margaret's husband joins the ruling Baath Party in the Saddam years because it's the best way to advance his career; U.S. soldiers break down doors and drive tanks through generator lines because they're too focused on insurgent attacks to worry about what's in their path...
...elegant, tireless philanthropist. But the long career of effervescent singer-actress Kitty Carlisle Hart spanned media from film (the Marx Brothers' A Night at the Opera, Woody Allen's Radio Days) to stage (On Your Toes) to opera (Die Fledermaus, her 1966 debut at the Met). Hart, whose husband was playwright Moss Hart, was best known for her 1956-67 stint as a lively celebrity panelist on TV's To Tell the Truth...
...story is the same as that of many other military wives. My husband is well on the way to his third tour in Iraq. We have two little girls who barely know their father. Each time he deploys, I brace myself; he may not come home alive. And when my soldier is home, he isn't resting. He is hard at work training in the classroom and the field. How long can we sustain this lifestyle? It is high time for military families to stand up to this Administration and say, No more...
...unique bond with her niece, a preemie who needed breast milk to grow. Chang says cross-nursing brought her closer to her neighbor. "It takes female friendship to another level. You're trusting another person to nurture your child," she says. And she adds that since she and her husband don't live near family, "it's also a way of building that village or community that a lot of us crave...
...focused closely on him. The lonely couple watched and cried when he said things that cut them, as when he urged the community to look after those whose sons and daughters would never come back. Or when he said of the dead, "Now they're gone." At that, the husband leaned hard onto his fist. "A parent's love is never far from a child," the President said and they both broke down, then sat back up. "Reach out to help those who have lost a son or daughter," he said. And they sobbed...