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...feel as if your radical acts have been successful? How do you measure progress? The Mount Rushmore action happened right before Congress was supposed to take a very close vote on the acid-rain bill. That bill did pass shortly after that, requiring a 50% reduction, so that one was successful. Certainly the whaling campaigns have been successful. We've seen from experience that this kind of aggressive approach can be more successful than the insider, smoky-backroom approach larger environmental groups are using...
...Afghanistan is at a crossroads. President Obama will soon decide whether to commit more U.S. troops to a conflict that's already on the verge of becoming the longest military action in American history--or perhaps begin to dial back our commitment there. It's been more than eight years since the war began, and for much of that time, it was a conflict that took place at the margins of our awareness. First the quick fall of the Taliban regime made Afghanistan seem like a problem largely solved. Then the extended agony of the Iraq war drew all eyes...
...incongruous strip of greenery between two bone-dry mountain ranges, the valley has become a flash point for the Afghan insurgency. By the time Ferguson got there, 26 men of Apache company had been wounded in the seven weeks since their arrival, and one had been killed in action--all from improvised explosive devices (IEDs), the deadly little bombs that lurk anywhere...
Rising prices are always good news, though, for real estate agents, mortgage lenders and homebuilders. The higher prices go, the bigger their cut of the action. These groups are powers in Washington. The National Association of Realtors gave more money than any other group to candidates in the last elections ($4 million), according to the Center for Responsive Politics, and its 1.1 million members can do a lot of lobbying. Hence the subsidies for homeownership that never go away. In 1961 departing President Dwight Eisenhower warned of "the acquisition of unwarranted influence" by what he dubbed the military-industrial complex...
Some dioceses are - to use education reformers' favorite action verb - innovating. Last year, in a controversial and mostly untested move, seven Catholic schools in Washington converted to charter schools. In Miami, eight schools have followed the same route. In Wichita, Kans., which still has a strong Catholic community, parishioners are encouraged to give a certain percentage of their salary to the diocese, which allows for tuition-free schooling for Catholics and lower tuition costs for non-Catholics. As a result, the diocese has not closed any schools in the past decade...