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...ideas. But the initiatives they have settled on sound more like Clinton's brand of small-bore governance: computerizing medical records; making it easier for workers to take their health benefits with them when they leave a job and--an idea that captured Bush's imagination in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina--giving a boost to Catholic and other private schools as an alternative for inner-city children. While Bush still hopes to sign an immigration bill by summer and plans to talk a lot about the subject next year, his program to offer temporary legal status to illegal immigrant...
...this is why Munich works so well -- the movie is not primarily about that Munich. It is about the aftermath, in which the Israeli government, with Prime Minister Golda Meir's full endorsement, mounted a secret war of revenge against the murderers. In one of the movie's most crucial lines, she says, "Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values." That negotiation--also carried out in the increasingly troubled mind of Avner Kauffman, leader of the Israeli hit squad on which the movie concentrates (there were several)--raises Spielberg's film above the thriller level...
...Shelby shows that an individual need not agree with Kanye West politically—or even appreciate hip-hop music—to join in black solidarity. But, as West’s remark suggests, racism lingers at all levels of American society (as demonstrated so powerfully in the aftermath of Katrina), and Shelby rightly suggests that black solidarity can be vibrant even if it is narrowly tailored to combat that prejudice...
...cast a shadow over a tradition between Boston and Canada. For the past 34 years, Nova Scotia has sent a carefully-selected tree to Boston as a gesture of gratitude for the help that Boston gave to Halifax—the capital of Nova Scotia—in the aftermath of a December 1917 explosion of two ships near the port of Halifax that killed and injured thousands of citizens...
...Because of their arguments, Sands said, members of the Bush administration—including legal counsel—could be pursued by other signatories of international treaties. Sands cited as precedent the detention of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in London in 1999 and a U.S. lawsuit in the aftermath of World War II which convicted individuals for participating “in governmentally organized systems of cruelty.” One key and controversial legal advisor to the Bush administration—now on the Harvard Law faculty—was originally scheduled to participate in last night?...