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This sometimes bitter crossfire between the government and the press is not a bad thing. In fact, such a rough-and-tumble debate is at the heart of American democracy, a 218-year-old seesaw over competing values that will and should continue for as long as we are a nation...
Summers announced he would step down in February after a bitter year-long spat with the Faculty of Arts and Science that ended when Summers lost the support of key members of the University’s highest governing board, the Harvard Corporation. His affair with the Faculty was touched off by the president’s infamous January 2005 remarks on women in science, which thrust Harvard squarely into the international spotlight and brought the embattled leader’s every move under intense scrutiny...
...More than 2,500 U.S. soldiers have been killed in Iraq by the very insurgents for whom indemnity is being considered by a U.S.-backed government, and giving them amnesty would be a bitter pill for the U.S. to swallow. For Maliki to publicly offer such an amnesty right now is politically unacceptable to Washington...
...healthy combativeness" of politics clarified differences and choices. The rough-and-tumble of the political arena didn't bother him. "If a man has a very decided character, has a strongly accentuated career," Roosevelt said, "it is normally the case of course that he makes ardent friends and bitter enemies." T.R. had both. So did F.D.R. So did Lincoln. So did Reagan. So do all consequential leaders...
...Although U.S. players, not surprisingly, were bitter about the penalty kick that cost them the game, they also acknowledged that they hadn't done enough to win. "We didn't do our job either," said McBride, alluding to referee Merk's decision. McBride spent much of the contest futilely chasing long balls kicked over his head from the back line. This will likely be the big centerman's last World Cup, but if the U.S. wants to qualify for the next one, they'd better produce a top flight striker, and soon, as McBride was operating alone for much...