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Since the release of their previous album, Hello, Nasty, in 1998, the Beastie Boys have accumulated an aura of seriousness that is almost wholly undeserved. It's true that they issued a long-overdue apology for the homophobia of their historically dumb first record, 1986's Licensed to Ill, and continued to champion the cause of Tibetan freedom. But in much the same way that Condoleezza Rice's oft repeated desire to be commissioner of the NFL hardly makes her a jock, the Beasties' hopes for a free Tibet don't make them statesmen. The Tibet thing was just...
...General John Abizaid, head of the U.S. military's Central Command, exhorts the troops to keep the faith and emphasizes the good things that are happening in Iraq. That might change people's perception of the war, but it won't change the reality of it. JORGE OVALLE Normal, Ill...
...asked if the President who led us into Iraq knows how to lead us out. Bush did not lead me into Iraq; he dragged me, kicking and screaming, along with millions of others who could foresee the catastrophe this ill-advised action would produce. CHARLIE ROSE Boulder, Colo...
...things: drama, politics and sports, and I'm not sure they always come in that order," Reagan once said. His picture in the high school yearbook bore the caption "Life is just one grand sweet song, so start the music." He was born on Feb. 6, 1911, in Tampico, Ill., in that Midwestern heartland that is thought to be the seedbed of national heroes. But nothing about his origins augured any remarkable success. His father Jack, who had never reached high school, was a shoe salesman and an alcoholic. The family moved often; money was short. Reagan was 11 when...
...huge increase in U.S. defense spending. He nearly doubled defense spending during his first term while deploying medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe and battling communists in Central America. He rarely gave ground, and fumbles in foreign policy--like the deaths of 241 Marines on an ill-advised mission to Lebanon in 1983--were eclipsed by sending the troops into Grenada only days later...