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...have to begin by asking, what is this challenge of Islamic terrorism? If it's seen as a challenge against the West, we are in trouble. If it is seen as a threat to humanity, we will find the right response. Even before being our enemies, this terrorism is the enemy of their own people...
...attempt what governments have found impractical, if not impossible: Find a way to provide AIDS drugs to the more than 40 million HIV-positive people in the world - 90% of them in developing countries. Clinton recruited Ira Magaziner, the architect of Hillary's disastrous health care effort, to begin negotiating deals with the same pharmaceutical industry that she had demonized as profiteers...
...Pomona College sent a higher percentage of its students to Harvard Law in 2005 than Brown or Duke. The academic might of these less fabled colleges was never a secret, but it's becoming more appreciated than ever before. "Most of the good, small schools were church related to begin with, and it was bad form to beat your chest and brag," Pope says...
Today relations between the different levels of government are at a low point. The natural tensions of a federal system have been exacerbated by an Administration that distrusts government even more than the average voter does. President Bush did not want to establish DHS to begin with. When he was pressured to do it anyway, he created a department weak in leadership, autonomy and funding...
...Hizballah's engineering wing, which in effect has become the largest contracting firm in Lebanon overnight. The Jihad of Construction plans to hire some of the country's biggest construction companies for projects that need to be done quickly, like removing debris from the streets before the autumn rains begin. But it will hire smaller companies from the most affected communities to do the bulk of the reconstruction work. "Many of them will go bankrupt if they don't get work soon," said Khereddine. "And we will survey the work so that we will know if they are doing...