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2 0 0 4 OCTOBER 05 OCTOBER 04 OCTOBER 03 OCTOBER 02 OCTOBER 01 SEPTEMBER 04 SEPTEMBER 03 SEPTEMBER 02 SEPTEMBER 01 AUGUST 04 AUGUST 03 AUGUST 02 AUGUST 01 JULY 05 JULY 04 JULY 03 JULY 02 JULY 01 JUNE 04 JUNE 03 JUNE 02 JUNE 01 MAY 04 MAY 03 MAY 02 MAY 01 APRIL 05 APRIL 04 APRIL 03 APRIL 02 APRIL 01 MARCH 04 MARCH 03 MARCH 02 MARCH 01 FEBRUARY 04 FEBRUARY 03 FEBRUARY 02 FEBRUARY 01 JANUARY 05 JANUARY 04 JANUARY 03 JANUARY 02 JANUARY 01 2 0 0 3 DECEMBER 04 DECEMBER 03 DECEMBER 02 DECEMBER 01 NOVEMBER 04 NOVEMBER 03 NOVEMBER 02 NOVEMBER 01 OCTOBER 03 OCTOBER 02 OCTOBER 01 SEPTEMBER AUGUST 02 AUGUST 01 JULY 02 JULY 01 JUNE 02 JUNE 01 MAY 02 MAY 01 APRIL 02 APRIL 01 MARCH FEBRUARY JANUARY WEDDING			O C T O B E R 3 0 , 2 0 0 4 ABOVE Windy. The sweet gum tree in the back garden. Carmina Burana BalletMet Interesting parts; not yet quite a whole work. A very dense work. It might help to see it again to find and appreciate the themes. It might also help to be performed again and again, so the dancers bring the themes to more prominence. Harrison West A walk through the neighborhood And then a drive through Worthington's hidden Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired neighborhood. O C T O B E R 2 9 , 2 0 0 4 ABOVE AND BELOW The "unreality-based" community. George Bush and Arnold Schwarzenegger rally at Nationwide Arena. German Village A walk through the neighborhood And then we decided to take Charlie home and come back and eat at Old(e) Mohawk. ABOVE Spinning toward winter. Making fast the web. O C T O B E R 2 8 , 2 0 0 4 ABOVE AND BELOW Fast 50. Awards banquet, Columbus Convention Center Choir rehearsal Bexley afterwards Mike & Jen's To wish them a wonderful cruise, and to see Anneliese and Allison off as they went trick-or-treating. Anneliese had a difficult time getting her costume on (she didn't want to get her costume on), but seemed ready to go by the time we left. O C T O B E R 2 7 , 2 0 0 4 ABOVE Life. Comes at you. Fast. (Nationwide Insurance advertistment, rear of Atlas building, downtown Columbus, Ohio). ABOVE Perched. On the edge. From the back garden. O C T O B E R 2 6 , 2 0 0 4 ABOVE Walking door-to-door for the election? I was greeted at the front door on my way in for lunch. Gallery More autumn photographs Last Friday \| Akron \| Akron 2 ABOVE Buckyballs. Are out in force in the sweet gum tree in the back garden. Endorsements Denver Post \| George W. Bush for president Our support for Bush is tempered by unease over the poor choices and results of his first term. To succeed in his second-term, Bush must begin by taking responsibility for U.S. failures in Iraq, admit his mistakes and adjust U.S. strategy. Big time, as his running mate might say. ... The president sent U.S. forces into Iraq 18 months ago to oust Saddam Hussein, but with no plan to handle any subsequent resistance. Vice President Dick Cheney said Iraqis would greet the invasion force as liberators, quite a miscalculation, and there was no Plan B. Coalition forces have been unable to defend Iraqi oil assets from insurgent sabotage. It's hard to believe the United States could have done a worse job planning for a new Iraq. ... The heart of the president's economic plan is based on one very good idea - tax cuts to stimulate economic growth - but he's tilted its impact to favor asset growth for wealthy families rather than business growth. Such tax cuts do not stimulate the economy, and the recovery has been a tepid one in Colorado and elsewhere. Some on the far right want to use tax reduction to downsize government, but since Bush also continues to spend - unbelievably, he's never vetoed a spending bill - his tax cuts just add to the dangerously high deficit. I'm confused by the headline. Did they just run the wrong name? Or do they really believe that a president who has done everything wrong (according to their own accounting) in his first term (and by his own admission made no mistakes), will suddenly change course completely? Hasn't Mr. Bush promised in every debate to keep doing exactly what he's doing now? O C T O B E R 2 5 , 2 0 0 4 ABOVE Front & Long Streets. Columbus, Ohio. Endorsements Des Moines Register \| John Kerry, the real thing Yes, Kerry is liberal. But what's to fear from a liberal president? That he would run big deficits? That he would increase federal spending? That he would expand the power of the federal government over individuals' lives? Nothing Kerry could do could top what President Bush has already done in those realms. Kerry is not the stereotypical liberal in any case. According to the "Almanac of American Politics," Kerry is "more respectful of economic free markets" and more inclined to an expansionist foreign policy than other liberal Democrats. He has been a champion of small business. He was an early supporter of the conservative Gramm-Rudman-Hollings deficit-reduction act. *Wasn't the war supposed to prevent* the proliferation of weapons? Huge cache of expolsives vanished from site in Iraq \| NYT In an interview with The Times and "60 Minutes" in Baghdad, the minister of science and technology, Rashad M. Omar, confirmed the facts described in the letter. "Yes, they are missing," Dr. Omar said. "We don't know what happened." The I.A.E.A. says it also does not know, and has reported that machine tools that can be used for either nuclear or non-nuclear purposes have also been looted. Dr. Omar said that after the American-led invasion, the sites containing the explosives were under the control of the Coalition Provisional Authority, an American-led entity that was the highest civilian authority in Iraq until it handed sovereignty of the country over to the interim government on June 28. "After the collapse of the regime, our liberation, everything was under the coalition forces, under their control," Dr. Omar said. "So probably they can answer this question, what happened to the materials." Officials in Washington said they had no answers to that question. One senior official noted that the Qaqaa complex where the explosives were stored was listed as a "medium priority" site on the Central Intelligence Agency's list of more than 500 sites that needed to be searched and secured during the invasion. "Should we have gone there? Definitely," said one senior administration official. In the chaos that followed the invasion, however, many of those sites, even some considered a higher priority, were never secured. ABOVE Reflections in the pond. Of a sunny day. ABOVE All lined up. And ready to glow, after surviving the trip home from Akron. O C T O B E R 2 4 , 2 0 0 4 ABOVE More from Akron. Textured drive. 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