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Some women still party as if invulnerable It's midnight at Pravda, a trendy Manhattan bar where graduate students from nearby New York University are jammed into leather booths. A group chants, ''Another vodka! Another vodka!" A young woman named Jovana is in the corner, kissing a young man she met hours earlier. Days after the brutal rape and murder of a 24-year-old graduate student from Boston who had been drinking at a bar two blocks away, the scene is notable for an absence of fear. ''It happens here," Barbara Klen, a 24-year-old NYU student, said of the slaying. ''It happens...

Howard Dean, liberal governor of Vermont (think San Francisco with snow) knows exactly why George W. Bush was wrong to invade Iraq: "Iraq was not a threat to us. As frightful and dreadful as Saddam Hussein is, or was, it was not OK for the United States to attack a country that was not a threat to us." Oh, sure, Saddam Hussein was a lifelong terrorist and supporter of terror, he gave safe harbor to terrorists who killed Americans, he invaded his neighbors twice, repeatedly threatened the world's oil supply, called for the destruction of Israel and had an active...