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...Stein says it was always obvious that the president would nominate a conservative. There are three basic types of persons he could have nominated-a "stealth candidate," such as Harriet Miers, who has little record; a thoughtful and open-minded conservative; or a doctrinaire or "instrumental" conservative who has an agenda to enact. "We are going to have a conservative on the court-that's a given-so between those three choices I would much prefer having someone who is intelligent, open-minded and doesn't approach things knowing the result they want to come away with." Concludes Stein...
...surprisingly angry for so gentle a man. In Pathologies of Power (2003), his most recent, he argues that the only antidote for the "structural violence" that keeps the poor too sick to climb out of the hole they are in is to treat health care as the most basic human right and do whatever it takes to deliver...
...region last December. “People don’t know that over 80,000 people have died, that over 70,000 people are injured, that children are being operated on without anesthesia, that people don’t have food and shelter and other such basic amenities,” Farid said. Farid and others handed out black bandanas last Thursday to raise awareness. Jyothi L. Ramakrishnan ’06 said she thinks the difference in media coverage was due to Pakistan’s location and political status. “Because the earthquake...
...quiet courage and nonnegotiable dignity, Rosa Parks was an activist and a freedom fighter who transformed a nation and confirmed a notion that ordinary people can have an extraordinary effect on the world. In her declining health, I would often visit Mrs. Parks, and once asked her the most basic question: Why did you do it? She said the inspiration for her Dignity Day in 1955 occurred three months prior, when African-American Emmett Till's murdered and disfigured body was publicly displayed for the world to see. "When I thought about Emmett Till," she told me, "I could...
...Ignoring its bitter experience trying to save democracy in Vietnam, the U.S. again finds itself bogged down?this time in Afghanistan and Iraq. It seems the U.S. doesn't learn from history. Whereas the basic objective that led American troops into Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq remains noble?projecting America's commitment to democratic ideals?subsequent developments have proved the Washington strategists wrong. Once the immediate, specific objective has been achieved, it is time to get out, leaving it to Afghans and Iraqis to sort out their internal problems. Afghans without the Taliban and Iraqis without Saddam Hussein can rebuild their...