Connectives (Source: University of Otago, NZ)

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Text A):

The Bush administration continues to press for a war on Iraq, bullying members of the United Nations even as it threatens to go forward alone. A significant percent of Americans and all our allies agree: a unilateral strike against Baghdad is both unwarranted and potentially disastrous.

This content file offers readers breaking news, the best analysis, activism resources, and timely information they need to resist this precipitous rush to war.

Source: www.alternet.org/waroniraq/

Text B)

I can't believe we're watching the war live Bush Watches Some of Baghdad Bombardment on TV

The White House came up with this after the Press Corps went literally crazy asking Ari Fleischer this question.
Apparently, those morons don't think the war is "real" for the Commander in Chief unless he sees it on CNN!
However, the TV coverage also explains why I haven't been blogging much...
watching this war happen "live" has had me mesmerized--I admit it.
It's "reality TV" to the max.
And with those reporters being imbedded with the troops, their reports really are the news of the war.
If you can filter out the Liberal cr*p (which is definitely the case with Fox News), it's almost "pure" news, for a change!
[I happened to flip over to MSNBC and caught Bush-hater Bryan Williams comparing our "Shock and Awe" bombing of Baghdad to the fire-bombing of Dresden during WWII.
Happily, somebody in the Pentagon caught this,too, because Rummy had some choice words for Bryan (even though he didn't mention him by name, "you know who you are") about such remarks at his daily press conference this afternoon! Rummy is so great!]

►House of Orange (Click Online/BBC)

A Seuss-Like Look at the Iraq Issue  (NPR 7 Feb 2003)

US Political System of
Checks and Balances

  NPR's Living on Earth: High Tech Booty Hunt / Ken Shulman  (Jan 6, 2003)

Geocaching -The sport where YOU are the search engine.

Alexander Rae Baldwin III, was the second of six children in his family. Born in Massapequa, New York on April 3, 1958 he was the first of his family to start a career in acting. Following in his footsteps his brothers Daniel, Stephen and William have all founded there own careers in acting. As a boy, he was an avid film-goer, always with a dream of becoming an actor. Although achieving a political science major at George Washington University, he never gave up his childhood dream. Three years later he moved to Manhattan to pursue his acting career at New York University's esteemed drama department. He has worked chiefly as a professional actor ever since his role in the daytime TV series "The Doctors" on NBC. That performance led to a lead role on the primetime series "Cutter to Houston."

He soon moved back to New york to work in theatre. His first Broadway role was in Joe Orton's comedy "Loot." This claimed the prestigious Theatre World prize in a 1986. Since then some of his theatrical acomplishments include a starring performance in "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "Prelude to a Kiss." Some of Alec's many movie credits are as follows; Malice, Beetlejuice, She's Having a Baby, The Hunt For Red October, Married to the Mob, The Getaway, Talk Radio, Great Balls of Fire, Working Girl, Alice, Miami Blues, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Shadow and the upcoming Heaven's Prisoners.

Extract from an interview with Wilis:

Interviewer: You play a man who is very strong. Do you feel invincible?

Willis: Hell, no! No, I'm really vulnerable! No, no, no! I'm vulnerable emotionally, vulnerable as a human being. I'm not invincible. I'm just like you! You cut me -- I bleed. I've never felt that. It's just a part of the movie.

Interviewer: Could you explain what you learned about yourself while making "Unbreakable"?

Willis: Something really interesting happened to me on this film because of having worked with Night on "The Sixth Sense." The relationship we developed on that film as actor and director, and also becoming friends -- there was an extraordinary level of trust that I generally don't get. It's because when you go from movie to movie, you seldom get to work with the same director twice. I think Night and I started at a much higher level of communication than [what] normally happens in films. For myself, that allowed me to really put a lot of my performance in Night's hands. We spent a lot of time talking about what David Dunn would or would not do, how he would talk, the fact that he's not as smart as everyone else in the room, etc. Once we laid down these rules, we stuck to them. Once I saw a rough cut to the film, I realized that all the things we really worked on so hard, really worked. It doesn't always happen.

The Fifth Element (1997)

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1) SOUTH AFRICA-POPULATION: Coloureds Complain of Marginalisation (Oneworld.net)

Sherman J. Alexie, Jr., was born in October 1966. A Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, he grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, Washington, about 50 miles northwest of Spokane. Approximately 1,100 Spokane Tribal members live there. Alexie's father is a Coeur d'Alene Indian, and his mother is a Spokane Indian.

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Native American Sherman Alexie's new novel is a departure in tone from his lyrical and funny earlier work, which include The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Reservation Blues. The main character is an Indian serial killer who incites racial tension by murdering whites in retribution for his people's history. The killer leaves clear signs of his motives by scalping his victims, and leaving feathers as gestures of Indian defiance. The killer is a conflicted creation--raised by loving white parents, but twisted by loss of his identity as an Indian. Alexie layers the story with complications and ancillary characters, from a rabid talk show host, to vengeance seeking whites, to liberals who find their patronizing espousal of Indian causes no longer so easy.

HOW TO RAISE A JUVENILE DELINQUENT

(Found by Tobias Rixen)

Rules 1-12

Context: Equal Opportunity (Wong-Chu)

It is estimated that 600 Chinese workers died while constructing the Canadian Pacific Railway.
The conditions in which the Chinese had to live and work were so bad that many died of scurvy and other diseases.
The Chinese and white camps were separated and most of the time the two sides hardly spoke to one another. The Chinese workers were very quick and efficient, "they could quickly break camp, trek as far as 25 miles and set up new camp within 24 hours.

Preparation for test on October 29 (Traffic in LA & California)

  LA TRAFFIC (from All Things Considered, Wednesday, November 26, 1997 )

Above:

Imagine avoiding congested freeways, crowded airports and overbooked planes.

left:

DR. ROADMAP -- the first name in alternate routes

DR. ROADMAP burst upon the traffic scene in late 1987 as the first person in Los Angeles to offer alternate routes to motorists who were sick and tired of being stuck in traffic. In 1990 he released to the world the most comprehensive guide ever written of off-freeway commuting in Southern California. (read more)

William Hauptman was born in Texas. His plays include Big River, a musical Hauptman wrote with the late Roger Miller that won seven Tony awards. His fiction, which has appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Southwest Review, and The Best American Short Stories, includes Good Rockin' Tonight, a collection of short stories; and The Storm Season, a novel. He is currently a guest lecturer at the Texas Center for Writers in Austin.

Johannesburg, SA

Bishop CA
 

Hang-glider Pilot
 

William Hauptman

Sherman Alexie

Bruce Willis