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...central imperative is not combating terrorists, but locating them. Such a task requires augmented intelligence capabilities and special operations forces—not a half-trillion dollars worth of new submarines and planes. The administration has clearly lost the ability to approach defense policy rationally. Certainly America??s national integrity and security against current and emerging threats does demand a solid military establishment. But our forces should be tailored to address the unique threats they will face, not pushed blindly to the limits of what is technologically and fiscally possible. Citizens of our democracy expect (and deserve) other...
...York Times critic who denounced “Bonnie and Clyde” as a “cheap piece of bald-faced slapstick comedy” remarkable only for its pointless violence and lack of taste. Penn reacted against critics such as Crowther who, during America??s military engagement in Vietnam, deemed the brutal undertones of his films irrelevant. He also expressed admiration for the young people who tore up their draft cards, resisted the war, and sought peace—the generation that inspired him to write “Alice’s Restaurant...
Shortcomings in how the Bush administration has administered the program notwithstanding, NCLB has a progressive design. It has its roots in the Clinton administration’s Improving America??s Schools Act of 1994, which aimed to improve local performance through federal oversight and channel funds to schools with underperforming minority students. The NCLB Act the George W. Bush team proposed to Congress in 2001 embodied many of the same principles, but increased autonomy for both states and local districts. And that is why it now fails...
...more than 50 percent [were] probably in that 18 to 25 age range.” Massachusetts has unexpectedly become a battleground state, and with that status have come several high-profile candidate visits. Clinton visited Clark University in Worcester for a “Solutions for America?? rally yesterday morning, and then held a town hall event yesterday evening. Republican hopeful John McCain held a campaign event and attended a Super Bowl party in Boston on Sunday, and then held a 9 a.m. rally at Faneuil Hall yesterday. Former Governor Mitt Romney, who is facing off against...
Along with what is fast becoming an irredeemably bleak legacy, the Bush administration will leave behind a lexicon that even our “change” candidates have taken to using. In it, “terror” is defined as a shadowy coalition of America??s (Muslim) enemies, not a feeling; “compassion” is not a virtue, but a hidebound, evangelical conception of charity. Amid this catalog of inexactitudes, the most egregious example must be terror’s foil, “freedom”: In its reduction...