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...view of Iraq with the audience and "it happened to deviate one iota, one little inch, from what the President's doing ... it would be terrible." But he kept on talking: "It'd bring great anxiety not only to him but to his supporters." And talking: "In the early 1960s, Jim Baker and I were the men's doubles champions in tennis in the city of Houston," he said of the former Secretary of State, now co-chairing a panel that is supposed to make recommendations about what to do in Iraq. And then the former President talked some more...
...1960s, many states in the U.S. began reassessing hospitalized mental patients, releasing those not deemed to be a danger to themselves or others and passing laws making it more difficult to commit individuals without their consent. Many asylum patients were released, albeit with mixed results...
...role--as both a threat and a model--in the drama that probably lies closest to Benedict's heart: the secularization of Christian Europe. In the same 1996 book, he wrote that "the Islamic soul reawakened" in reaction to the erosion of the West's moral stature during the 1960s. Ratzinger paraphrased that soul's new song: "We know who we are; our religion is holding its ground; you don't have one any longer. We have a moral message that has existed without interruption since the prophets, and we will tell the world how to live it, where...
...simply not possible to adequately describe the importance of Milton Friedman. In the the 1950s and 1960s, most men and women of stature simply assumed that state control of the individual and of the economy was inevitable and desirable. Friedman, then a professor of economics at the University of Chicago, said that it was neither inevitable nor desirable. In books, lectures, articles--wherever he could find a pulpit--Friedman said freedom, specifically individual liberty, was the optimal condition of mankind, both for human satisfaction and for prosperity...
...Crimson dropped a 5-2 contest to Yale on Saturday night at the Bright Hockey Center, falling to last place in the league standings and running its record to 2-6-0 (1-6-0 ECAC)—its worst start to the season since the mid-1960s. Rookie winger Chris Cahill scored the game-winner for the Bulldogs at 10:47 of the second period, putting away a bouncing puck at the right post into a half-empty net. Though five of the seven goals scored on a penalty-filled night came on powerplays—including both...