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QUOTE(winodj @ Feb 11, 2005 -> 10:21 AM) http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...y_clark_memo_dc "We urgently need . . . a Principals level review on the al Qida network." How was that not clear, Condi? You mean Condi lied to the 9/11 Commission? Say it isn't so!

QUOTE(mreye @ Feb 11, 2005 -> 10:31 AM) And his about enjoying the thread about death? I was skimming through it fast while eating breakfast before class. I probably missed that one. Being wired on the Dew can do that after little sleep, haha. And I just found the headbang -- to give an alternate response to what has been asserted about it -I think that more of the "enjoyment" comes out of airing the news of what is going on since a lot of it is not getting sufficent play on TV media since the Michael Jackson trial, Blake Trial, Paris Hilton new perfume, etc. I don't think he is a cold hearted prick. I save that sort of commentary for the members of the War Party (both Dems and Reps) that were incompetent enough to send soldiers into Iraq in the first place even though the US Army War College reports show that there were severe doubts regarding a lot of Hussein's abilities (I'm in a computer lab right now but I can post the link to the article when I get back to my place for any interested parties in reading it)

QUOTE(ChiSoxyGirl @ Feb 11, 2005 -> 10:01 AM) Rest in Peace. Playwright Arthur Miller Dies at 89 4 minutes ago Add to My Yahoo! Top Stories - AP ROXBURY, Conn. - Arthur Miller, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright whose most famous fictional creation, Willy Loman in "Death of a Salesman," came to symbolize the American Dream gone awry, has died. He was 89. Miller, who had been hailed as America's greatest living playwright, died Thursday night at his home in Roxbury of heart failure, his assistant, Julia Bolus, said Friday. His family was at his bedside, she said. His plays, with their strong emphasis on family, morality and personal responsibility, spoke to the growing fragmentation of American society. "A lot of my work goes to the center of where we belong — if there is any root to life — because nowadays the family is broken up, and people don't live in the same place for very long," Miller said in a 1988 interview. "Dislocation, maybe, is part of our uneasiness. It implants the feeling that nothing is really permanent." Miller's career was marked by early success. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for "Death of a Salesman" in 1949, when he was just 33 years old. His marriage to Marilyn Monroe in 1956 further catapulted the playwright to fame, though that was publicity he said he never pursued. In a 1992 interview with a French newspaper, he called her "highly self-destructive" and said that during their marriage, "all my energy and attention were devoted to trying to help her solve her problems. Unfortunately, I didn't have much success." "Death of a Salesman," which took Miller only six weeks to write, earned rave reviews when it opened on Broadway in February 1949, directed by Elia Kazan. The story of Willy Loman, a man destroyed by his own stubborn belief in the glory of American capitalism and the redemptive power of success, was made into a movie and staged all over the world. "I couldn't have predicted that a work like `Death of a Salesman' would take on the proportions it has," Miller said in 1988. "Originally, it was a literal play about a literal salesman, but it has become a bit of a myth, not only here but in many other parts of the world." In 1999, 50 years after it won the Tony Award as best play, "Death of a Salesman" won the Tony for best revival of the Broadway season. The show also won the top acting prize for Brian Dennehy (news), who played Loman. Miller, then 83, received a lifetime achievement award. "Just being around to receive it is a pleasure," he joked to the audience during the awards ceremony. Miller won the New York Drama Critics' Circle's best play award twice in the 1940s, for "All My Sons" in 1947 and for "Death of a Salesman." In 1953, he received a Tony Award for "The Crucible," a play about mass hysteria during the Salem witch trials that was inspired by the repressive political environment of McCarthyism. That play, still read by thousands of American high-school students each year, is Miller's most frequently performed work. Miller and Monroe divorced after five years and in 1962 he married his third wife, photographer Inge Morath. That same year, Monroe committed suicide. Miller wrote the screenplay for the Monroe film "The Misfits," which came out in 1960, and reflected on their relationship in his 1963 play "After the Fall." Reminiscing about Monroe in his 1987 autobiography, "Timebends: A Life," Miller lamented that she was rarely taken seriously as anything but a sex symbol. "To have survived, she would have had to be either more cynical or even further from reality than she was," he wrote. "Instead, she was a poet on a street corner trying to recite to a crowd pulling at her clothes." Miller's success, so overwhelming in the 1940s and '50s, seemed to be on the wane during the next two decades. But the 1980s brought a renewal of interest, beginning with a Broadway revival of "Death of a Salesman" starring Dustin Hoffman in 1984. Enthusiasm for Miller's work was particularly strong in England, which marked his 75th birthday in 1990 with four major productions of his plays. Miller also directed a Chinese production of "Death of a Salesman" at the Beijing Peoples' Art Theatre in 1983. Those who saw the Beijing production may not have identified with Loman's career, Miller wrote, but they shared his desire, "which was to excel, to win out over anonymity and meaninglessness, to love and be loved, and above all, perhaps, to count." In his later years, Miller became increasingly disillusioned with Broadway, and in 1991 he premiered a new play, "The Ride Down Mt. Morgan," in London — the first time he had opened a play outside of the United States. Miller said at the time he opted for the London opening to avoid the "dark defeatism" of the New York theater scene. "There is an open terror of the critics (in New York) and of losing fortunes of money," Miller said in an interview that year. "I have always hated that myself. All in all, it seemed like we ought to do the play in London." He returned to Broadway in 1994 with "Broken Glass," a drama about a dysfunctional family that won respectful reviews and a Tony nomination, but no big audiences. In London, it won an Olivier award as best play. Even in his later years, Miller continued to write. "It is what I do," he said in a 1996 interview with The Associated Press. "It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?" "Resurrection Blues" had its world premiere at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis in the summer of 2002 when Miller was 86. Set in an unnamed banana republic, the satire dealt with the possible televised execution of a revolutionary. In recent years New York even rediscovered Miller's first Broadway play, "The Man Who Had All the Luck," which was a four-performance flop in 1944, but had a successful revival, starring Chris O'Donnell, nearly six decades later. Last October, another new play, "Finishing the Picture," premiered at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. It was based on an episode of his marriage to Monroe. In accepting his lifetime achievement award at the 1999 Tony awards ceremony, Miller lamented that Broadway had become too narrow. "I hope that a new dimension and fresh resolve will inspire the powers that be to welcome fiercely ambitious playwrights," Miller said. "And that the time will come again when they will find a welcome for their big, world-challenging plays, somewhere west of London and somewhere east of the Hudson River." He was born Oct. 17, 1915, Miller was one of three children in a middle-class Jewish family. His father, a manufacturer of women's coats, was hard hit by the Depression in the 1930s, and could not afford to send Miller to college when the time came. Miller worked as a loader and shipping clerk at a New York warehouse to earn tuition money and eventually attended the University of Michigan, where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1938. He wrote his first plays in college, where they were awarded numerous prizes. He also published several novels and collections of short stories. He wrote several screenplays, including "The Misfits" (1961), which became Monroe's last movie, and "Playing for Time," (1981) a controversial television movie about the women's orchestra at Auschwitz. He also wrote a number of books with Morath, mainly about their travels in Russia and China. Miller had two children, Jane Ellen and Robert, by his first wife, Mary Slattery, and he and Morath had one daughter, Rebecca. This sucks. Boourns! The Crucible kicks so much ass.

QUOTE(mreye @ Feb 11, 2005 -> 09:48 AM) Following up links about death with a or a is bulls***. I think the first was because he was using Fox (or Faux) News as a source so he could not be accused of using a commie, liberal, pinko etc. etc. source. I think the was a fly in the face to the "Iraq is great after the elections" pap that is going around The second was of a "Hey, its just an Iraq thread!" jokin' about the other discussion going on in the thread & I don't think had to do with the information that followed it. It may not be the real meaning but its an alternate interpretation that I'd throw out there while I'm sitting here drinking Mt. Dew and eating bagels (the breakfast of college champions )

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Feb 11, 2005 -> 12:09 AM) http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/02/10/terror.t...wyer/index.html 1 out of 93,000+ that we know about that the government has investigated. The government seems to be doing a great job. Even more hilarious that all the anti-terror legislation didnt' do a damn thing to take this person down. But I'm sure we still need the Draconian civil liberties violations of the PATRIOT Act

QUOTE(mreye @ Feb 11, 2005 -> 08:28 AM) Death is funny, isn't it? Everybody who supported the neo-conservative hawks knew that this sort of death was imminent since the military doesn't use sunshine & rainbows to complete the job they were put into doing in Iraq. So when its discussed, I don't see why the hawks get so defensive -- don't be mad at the anti-war people bringing up the cost when you should be angry at the neo-conservative hawks that started an un-Constitutional war that is antithetical to the precepts of the republic in which we live. And his calling Rumsfeld "Dumsfeld" is pretty fitting seeing how this is just one of his many lies: http://www.toehold.com/~kyle/k5/rumsfeld.html

Cynical

QUOTE(AssHatSoxFan @ Feb 10, 2005 -> 10:51 PM) i hope everyone gets to read the article on page 2 about the cameron crazies jumping the shark Why would Duke fans want to beat up Greg Norman?

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Feb 10, 2005 -> 10:33 PM) Wow, what a mess :headshake How did he have to post no bail after he was charged?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/9/191334/0754 Holy s*** is all I have to say if this is true. To quote Full Metal Jacket "It's a big s*** sandwich and [they're] all gonna have to take a bite."

Oops. I forgot Michigan St. So Duke plays 3 good teams.

QUOTE(Butter Parque @ Feb 10, 2005 -> 06:34 PM) My pipe dream is that we face UNC in the final four or the National Championship, but as it looks right now, it seems that Duke has a better shot then UNC, no talent and all. Yes, and Duke is a team that got beat by an unranked Maryland (in NC no less) -- as I see it you've got no room to make any sort of comments about national championships. And could Duke have more of a creampuff schedule? Tennessee Martin (at Cameron) Davidson (essentially a home game) UNC Greensboro (at Cameron) Valpo (Finally a goddamn away game) Toledo (at Cameron) Illinois Chicago (at Cameron) Oklahoma (away game) Clemson (at Cameron) Princeton (at Cameron) Temple (at Cameron) NC State (away) Virginia (Cameron) Miami (away) Florida State (away) Maryland (Cameron) VA Tech (Cameron) Wake (OMG FINALLY A DECENT TEAM! -- away) GA Tech (Cameron) UNC (Cameron) Maryland (away) VA Tech (away) Wake (Cameron) GA Tech (away) St. John's (away) Miami (Cameron) UNC (away) They better have a goddamn winning record playing only a small handful of decent teams (read: UNC & Wake) And if you're wondering, I'm a fan of IlliNo1s since I go to the school.

QUOTE(winodj @ Feb 10, 2005 -> 06:26 PM) He also registered exposejessejackson.com too. But I'm afraid to look and see if that's a porn site or not. It just says "Coming Soon!" so it very well could be a porn site.

And oh yeah if anybody is wondering what the other sites were that this guy was registered to: hotmilitarystud militaryescorts militaryescortsm4m Its not just his entire lack of press credentials but that he was also linked to prostitution sites. Gannon was also given a classified CIA memo that named agent Valerie Plame, leading to his grilling by the grand jury investigating her outing. Its scary that a man with links to prostitution was given access to confidential CIA files. http://www.nydailynews.com/02-10-2005/news...6p-239417c.html

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Feb 10, 2005 -> 06:00 PM) I don't want to hear anyone complain about the way Dan Rather got treated... Its the way the media is supposed to operate. Uncover any f***ing stone possible. If it were just little puppies believing every word from an authority then it'd suck ass. Its too bad that most investigative reporting of any consequence really went out for the most part with the Pentagon papers [god, I'm such a history nerd] in this country.

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/stor...1408805,00.html

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace. Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction. I love using Bush quotes.

No other real mesage boards. Usually just Antiwar.com, Rotoworld, Common Dreams, The Memory Hole, Maddox and my blog.

QUOTE(RibbieRubarb @ Feb 10, 2005 -> 03:47 PM) It could be worse... Hold on, I'm thinking... nope...That is worse. :puke C'mon now Ribbie. At least it was just one testicle instead of both. /always look on the bright side of life

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Feb 10, 2005 -> 03:33 PM) That's nothing -- Did we post the story about the guy who cut his own off in a bar bet after his team (rugby or football) won something? That was very recently That fan was devoted, yes. But she upped the ante by sticking the testicle in her mouth. :puke

WTF? That's just...wow.

QUOTE(The Critic @ Feb 9, 2005 -> 07:58 PM) Paris Hilton is a skanky pig whose only obvious "talent" is being a skanky pig.....and having a rich daddy....she's vomitacious.... Paris Hilton -- the poster child for why a horse should not f*** a lamppost.

I'm glad Virginia cops have eliminated all other crime and can worry about such a trivial thing.

Two days off

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