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Indeed, diplomacy with these regimes would legitimize them—something that is certainly not in America’s interest. While some many contend that some dialogue is better than none at all, it seems highly unlikely that Iran or Syria would choose to bend to American interests...
...Having grown up in Indiana, I've always been a Notre Dame football fan largely because the folks in South Bend at least seem to eschew that culture - to believe still in the student athlete ethos. Sure, the Fighting Irish community is guilty of its own bloated football obsessions, including the program's gilded television contract with NBC and the new 10-year contract for coach Charlie Weis that reportedly approaches or exceeds the $3 million-a-year mark itself, threatening to drag Notre Dame into the pigskin salary...
...idea of a unipolar world, with one superpower, whose capital is Washington. It remains the case that no other nation has such a combined preponderance of economic, political, military and cultural assets as the U.S. Even so, we now know that American might is not always able to bend the world and the times to its will. The clearest example of that, obviously, is the nearly four-year-long failure of the Bush Administration to pacify Iraq and establish it as a beacon of peace and democracy for the rest of the Middle East...
...PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS That most agreeable of actors, Will Smith, keeps (as they say) "stretching." The question posed by The Pursuit of Happyness (the bad spelling is part of the story) is whether he's eventually going to bend himself completely out of shape. You have to wonder if making us feel bad for about 99% of a movie in order to make us feel good later is really a healthy thing for the actor or for the audience patiently enduring a string of bitter blows as his character, Chris Gardner, struggles to claim his share of the American dream...
...Democrats to "set any partisan rancor aside and reach a bipartisan solution to this critical issue." "The feeling on our side is that report seems pretty reasonable," a senior House G.O.P. aide told TIME. "It requires some heavy lifting, but it doesn't ask the Bush Administration to bend over backwards...