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‘Staying course’ worst option of all
      Iraq is on the brink. The American public knows it. The world knows it. But President Bush seems to have a deaf ear to other voices. Responding to questions about Iraq and the Middle East last week, Mr. Bush said, “This business about a graceful exit just simply has no realism to it whatsoever.
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Mangia! Mangia!
Cousin dishes out favorite minestrone
ANTOINETTE JACKSON
      It was mid-November, 1986 at my cousin Prudy’s home in Vienna, Virginia. I was sitting at the kitchen counter watching my Aunt Dorothy ladle steamy portions of her aromatic Neapolitan-style minestrone into the heavy deep sided-bowls. Many changes had taken place since the last the last time we al...
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