In his final State of the Union address, President Bush says there is no doubt that the “surge” of U.S. troops in Iraq is working, and that al Qaeda “will be defeated.”
“Al Qaeda is on the run in Iraq, and this enemy will be defeated,� Mr. Bush said in remarks prepared for delivery.
Mr. Bush also [...]
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Jan
Mortality defines the human condition. “We all have our dead-we all have our
Graves,” a Confederate Episcopal bishop observed in an 1862 sermon. Every era,
he explained, must confront “like miseries”; every age must search for “like
consolation.” Yet death has its discontinuities as well. Men and women approach
death in ways shaped by history, by culture, by conditions [...]
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Jan
Chapter One
Who Is “Black”?
“How difficult it sometimes is to know where the black begins and the white
ends.”
-Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery (1901)
Soon after declaring his candidacy for the presidency of the United States,
Senator Barack Obama was asked on the television program 60 Minutes when he had
“decided” that he was black. One of [...]
27
Jan
ASPEN It may seem a bit unorthodox to hold the Super Bowl before the regular season, but in the budding world of skiercross racing, that’s the way it’s playing out.
By all accounts, today’s skier X competition at Winter X Games 12 will qualify as the paramount competition on the 2008 skiercross calendar. From Aspen, [...]
27
Jan
ASPEN It may seem a bit unorthodox to hold the Super Bowl before the regular season, but in the budding world of skiercross racing, that’s the way it’s playing out.
By all accounts, today’s skier X competition at Winter X Games 12 will qualify as the paramount competition on the 2008 skiercross calendar. From Aspen, [...]
25
Jan
NEW YORK - Don Imus is being sued for more than $4 million by an advertiser on his former show who says the radio shock jock badmouthed the company and called its commercials for a book by the late President Gerald Ford “cheesy.”
Flatsigned Press Inc., a book publisher based in Nashville, Tenn., says Imus insulted [...]
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Jan
By Vivien Rehder
Lone Pine - Everything is big in California with a motorcycle tour through the national parks one of the best ways of discovering the more remote areas of the western United States state.
With gigantic mountain ranges and valleys in the western United States detours of 100 kilometres are small by comparison. Massive trees, [...]
21
Jan
Hodgenville Ky. celebrates bicentennial of Lincolns birth hardscrabble childhood
Posted by admin Published in TourHODGENVILLE, Ky. — “I hope to have God on my side,” Abraham Lincoln said during the Civil War, “but I must have Kentucky.”
And, it seems, the Commonwealth must have its native son. After years of watching Illinois trumpet itself as “The Land of Lincoln,” the president’s first, formative home is claiming him back.
On Feb. 12, [...]
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Jan
POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. — A quick stroll up Main Street is enough to learn who this river town’s most famous resident is: His name is on signs, in shop windows and restaurants, and there’s even a museum devoted to him.
And the sculpture in the middle of town prominently depicts his enormous wings and glowing red [...]
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Jan
Three decades ago, Lynne Tillman lived in a one-room flat at the tip of Manhattan that cost less per month than a lunch at many restaurants. The city was bankrupt. The World Trade Center had recently arisen, and South Street Seaport still employed fishmongers.
“They’d be coming in at the start of their day as [...]
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