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...What one regret do you have about your presidency? -Nyamisi Muindi, Buffalo, N.Y. I wish I had known then what I have learned since I left the White House. We could have had a much more effective policy on alleviating the suffering of people from unnecessary diseases and abject poverty...
...download” without a tinge of sympathy, not out of contempt for their favorite musicians but for the grubby intermediary that skims around 85 percent off each record sale. But now their desperation has begotten tactics far more deplorable than simple grousing and token settlements: abject fabrication and large-scale punitive litigation. Marks’ allegation about roaming bands of hungry musicians is not only prevarication, it’s revisionism; if anything is impeding “working class musicians,” it’s the avarice of the men in the same boardroom where Steven...
...What one regret do you have about your presidency? -Nyamisi Muindi, Buffalo, N.Y. I wish I had known then what I have learned since I left the White House. We could have had a much more effective policy on alleviating the suffering of people from unnecessary diseases and abject poverty...
...longer has the majority he needs to be reelected. "I think this is a sign of desperation" says Ayesha Tammy Haq, a prominent political talk show host. "Why else would you go and arrest a group of declawed politicians?" Or, she pauses, "it could also mean abject stupidity." Like Musharraf's attempts to unseat Chief Justice Chaudhry in order to smooth his way to continued power, "This is another incredibly stupid move that will backfire on the government. You are not winning friends by doing something like this. The masterminds are obviously mindless masters...
...unfortunate twists of fate. In emphatically writing about a homeless population that is a static and unchanging “they,” he seems to be defining the homeless as an “other,” inherently different kind of population. “Abject poverty” and “the greatest academic institution in the world” may not be as much of a dichotomy as one may think; a college degree is not going to protect a single one of us from being evicted in the future when we don?...