Good morning, everybody. The Dude was the best actor, Annie was the best actress, and The Hurt Locker was the best picture. Now, please enjoy your morning constitutional: Iraqis voted in large numbers Sunday, according to the New York Times, despite mortar and rocket attacks, a hopeful sign that the insurgency’s strategy is wearing thin and obsolete. President Obama is expected to announce his choice of retired Army Gen. Robert Harding to lead the Transportation Security Administration today, according to the AP. Harding served in the Army for 33 years, and had been the top human intelligence officer...
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So, until this is all ready to go, go ahead and read Pericles’s Funeral Oration, which is as follows: Most of my predecessors in this place have commended him who made this speech part of the law, telling us that it is well that it should be delivered at the burial of those who fall in battle. For myself, I should have thought that the worth which had displayed itself in deeds would be sufficiently rewarded by honors also shown by deeds; such as you now see in this funeral prepared at the people’s cost. And...
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