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CURRENT WISDOM Boston Globe Miss Susan B. Mills pens an epistle to a much favored Globe after a surfeit of Orwell or, perhaps, just a jug of cheap gin: I was relieved that the iron-fisted...
...World leaders will also be encouraged to kick the ball...
...He had seriously dented invincibility...
...The Goodall Institute has created the fabric doves to be flown by groups of young people around the world...
...December 15, 2003) Columnist Michael Wolff's rendering of recent political events translated from the original 64 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR FEBRUARY 2004 Chinese for the edification of those illiterates what reads this famous urban periodical: We've just had the reversal...
...But the examination was not done with waiting cameras for a worldwide audience...
...Goering would kill himself anyway with an undiscovered cyanide capsule...
...Then I turned from the front page to a small article on Page A5: "Bush signs bill extending FBI powers...
...Magician David Broder creates a silk purse out of nine sow's ears: I am still suspending judgment on Howard Dean, both as a candidate and as a possible president...
...Sunday's photos, and those of Saddam's sons, are not the only examples...
...It was disgraceful to publish those pictures...
...CURRENT WISDOM Boston Globe Miss Susan B. Mills pens an epistle to a much favored Globe after a surfeit of Orwell or, perhaps, just a jug of cheap gin: I was relieved that the iron-fisted dictator has been captured...
...It really worries me when I think about what kind of America our children and grandchildren will inherit if the present trends continue...
...I worry that it may boost President Bush's political clout...
...The Iraq toll, together with the murmurings of "quagmire," helped by endemic swing-state unemployment and precipitously falling approval numbers, seemed to be turning Bush into his father...
...When contrasted with the end of his sons, who fought overwhelming coalition forces to the death, how could Saddam, ignominiously captured without a struggle, appear any more weakened than he already was...
...a growing gap in income and wealth distribution...
...It goes against human dignity, to present him like a gorilla that has come out of the forest, with someone checking his head for lice...
...I noted that "most of the details of the bill are secret, including the total cost of the program...
...At the close of World War II, Nazi war criminals such as Hermann Goering were on the run...
...December 19, 2003) Washington Post How the Kultursmog works...
...The ball was used in the Brazil/England World Cup match and has been signed by players from both sides...
...This may mean another four years of his disastrous administration and four more years of his arrogant, militaristic foreign policy...
...And it means inaction on two critical environmental problems of global significance—uncontrolled population growth and global warming...
...December 22, 2003) FEBRUARY 2004 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 65...
...And, in fact, the violence against our troops increased after their deaths...
...December 16, 2003) Press Release (United Nations) A glimpse of the tough measures in store for the Iraqi insurgency once the Democrats take the White House and share a nation-building with Secretary-General Kofi Annan's modern centurions: This Sunday 21st September, the Secretary-General and Mrs...
...In addition, the Secretary-General will kick "a peace ball...
...and neglect of social issues...
...September 19, 2003) Buffalo News On the correspondence page of the esteemed Buffalo News Sigmund E from Amherst delineates a commendable national agenda for the next neoconservative generation: The capture of Saddam Hussein is certainly good news for Iraqis, but not necessarily for Americans...
...In war-torn countries warring parties will be encouraged to stop their conflict on one day a year and play soccer together...
...No Arab and no Muslim will ever forget these images" shown at Sunday's news conference, Moroccan journalist Khalid Jamai told Reuters...
...About twenty five young people from the Goodall Institute will join the ceremony in New York...
...It means a soaring budget deficit due to excessive spending on military hardware and militarization of space...
...Saddam Hussein's humane disinterment from his "spider hole" and allexpenses-paid tonsorial refreshment at an American military spa, sour grapes from op-ed poet Stanley Weintraub, moral grandstander: Such a disrespectful display in a society that highly values personal dignity may generate sympathy for Saddam and disgust with us, as happened after the grotesque display of the bodies of his sons, Qusay and Uday...
...Since the summer, the momentum and mood—both mo's—have been against the president...
...Pre-Christmas spirit notwithstanding, what has happened to our sense of civilized values...
...The Secretary-General's kick-off will be a symbol of the UN's solidarity with peoples in war-torn countries everywhere...
...December 15, 2003) USA Today In the aftermath of the Hon...
...Nane Annan will join UN Messenger of Peace, Jane Goodall, to fly doves for the Jane Goodall Institute to mark the International Day of Peace...
...For instance, we also have seen accused Iraqi war criminals trivialized by the Defense Department as figures on mock playing cards, as if bringing them to justice were a parlor game...
...They touched something very, very deep...
...and could not help but think: One dictator's powers are now diminished, while a would-be dictator's powers are on the rise...
...It means increasing power of corporations and big money at the expense of true democracy...
...It means the demise of environmental protection...
...After Goering eventually was seized, his military captors duly checked his body for concealed drugs and poison capCURRENT WISDO1N, sules so that he would not cheat interrogation or a tribunal by committing suicide...
...But I have to say he has run a brilliant campaign this year and put what is really quite a competent field of rival candidates to shame...
...The ball will be carried around the world as a symbol of peace...
...There was an anti-Bush flowering...
...December 28, 2003) Denver Post Belles lettres from nationally syndicated columnist Walter Cronkite, the colossus of television land: We cannot cut and run without drowning our national pride in our tears for what we will have done to Iraq and the inescapable damage to our international leadership and reputation...
Vol. 37 • February 2004 • No. 1
