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...Obama's speech was brave. He is trying to take an actual position, rather than just distance himself from the Rev. Wright, who is clearly a political liability. But I think he is being naive. There are just too many easy attack ads, piling up in the Republican library. (Michelle Obama: "For the first time in my adult life, I'm proud of my country." Rev. Wright: "God DAMN America.") Maybe it's a shame that you have to try to exhibit a treacly, shallow patriotism to be President. But John Kerry got hammered just for protesting the Vietnam...
...cabinet? How many Sunnis? Should a Sunni be president? Should a Shi'ite be prime minister? These kinds of sectarian mathematics don't work. They didn't work in Lebanon, they won't work in Iraq. I'm looking for straws in the wind. I'm looking for actual improvements where they can be measured. If people are coming back, you can measure that...
...white photograph depictsa mystery person, pail in hand, walkingaway from the potential reader over acovered bridge towards a sunny day. Thebook’s cover offers extensive metaphoricalpossibilities: the light at the end ofthe tunnel! Traversing the bridge of life!Receding into the blur of memory! However,the actual subject-matter of “Memory”remains rather mysterious. At leastwe can rest assured that the book is notonly a bestseller in France and a winnerof the Prix Goncourt, but also the winnerof Elle Magazine’s Reader’s Prize.The CommonerBy Jonathan BurnhamSchwartzOut NowNan...
...precinct results until March 29. But both campaigns now realize that they must ride herd on their delegates each step of the way to be sure their anointed delegates remain loyal to the candidate. As with most caucuses, they are allowed to switch their candidates even after the actual caucuses are finished, at least until the county convention; in Colorado, there have already been reports of some delegates already having shifted their allegiances from Obama to Clinton...
...that the managers and workers are simply lazy or corrupt. On house e-mail lists, some have even gone so far as to attack specific dining-hall employees. All this bickering directed at middlemen ignores the fact of its futility and carries on, instead of discussing solutions to the actual problem, like more flexible meal plans...