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...Obama’s strategies have been fostering the opposite sentiments. His permanent campaign encourages suspicion in place of trust, partisanship in place of unity, hopelessness in place of change. Ironically, the continuation of the policies that ensured his campaign’s success has forced Obama to abandon many of the promises he made during that campaign in the first place. The administration that promised to bring change to America has instead brought only more division—a division that may ensure Obama’s election in 2012 but will sacrifice his message in the process...
...very important; it is part of our mandate, we are not only an assistance agency but a protection agency. I sincerely hope we get the screening access, otherwise we would be forced to roll back our engagement." It is unlikely, though, that international aid agencies or donor countries will abandon its commitment to help Sri Lanka, a country that has lost more than 70,000 people in a generation of war. The Sri Lankan government is already making plans for a post-LTTE future. "We want to establish democracy in the area," says Rambukwella, through elections and then through...
...from another place and time. The recycled buses are usually given some sort of minimal window dressing, often in the form of windshield decals featuring Tweety Bird, Jesus, Real Madrid or all three - the "Chicken Bus Trinity." But in Panama, these red devils - nicknamed for their colorfulness and reckless abandon - are given a complete and enthusiastic custom detailing makeover that makes MTV's Pimp My Ride look modest by comparison. (See the 50 Worst Cars of all Time...
...right? If you bring Hamas into the political process and it acquiesces in a peace deal, will it abandon its dreams of eradicating Israel or not? Will Palestinian statehood moderate Hamas - by making it invested in the status quo - or - simply whet its appetite for more...
...disturbing that Specter, one of the few moderate Republicans left in the Senate, would rather abandon the Republican Party than take his chances against a more conservative primary opponent. As the Republican Party shifts further away from center, Specter’s defection shows that being a successful Republican means moving toward political extremes, while being a moderate Republican means imminent unemployment. More importantly, it shows that the GOP is either drifting right on purpose or is just powerless to stop itself. Specter’s close defeat of Toomey in 2004 was likely thanks to a late endorsement from...