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This White House is certainly not the first Administration to milk religious groups for votes and then boot them unceremoniously back out to pasture. In his days as a notorious "hatchet man" for President Richard M. Nixon, before he had allowed Jesus to transform his life, Chuck Colson used to oversee outreach to the religious community. "I arranged special briefings in the Roosevelt Room for religious leaders, ushered wide-eyed denominational leaders into the Oval Office for private sessions with the President," Colson later wrote. "Of all the groups I dealt with, I found religious leaders the most naive about...
...DIED. Joseph Kauffman, 84, an architect of the Peace Corps, which was launched by President Kennedy in 1961; in Madison, Wisconsin. As the first director of training for the volunteer foreign-aid force, he designed the boot camp-like regimen carried out for recruits at 70 college campuses across the U.S. Among its features: 7 a.m.-to-10 p.m. workdays six days a week, and instruction in foreign languages, technical job skills and medical issues...
...plant in Cambridge in 1998, they received rave reviews from customers. “For the first time, we got a handful of calls from people saying that the water tasted much better now that we’re back on our own water.” And to boot, he claims that the delicious natural beverage is above par. “I believe that we exceed all of the requirements of the DEP [Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection], not just meet them.” So instead of dropping a Benjamin on a water cooler, you might want...
...Changing the Middle East Calling Max Boot's "Second Opinion" rebuttal of Ferguson's story an example of straw-man argumentation would be an insult to straw men everywhere [Sept. 11]. No credible analyst of the Middle East believes that democracy is not preferable to the tyranny of Islamic fundamentalism. The debate is over tactics. Perhaps the only human attribute more powerful than the yearning for democracy is the loathing of political change wrought at gunpoint. Boot's signal example of democracy's triumph over tyranny is the collapse of the Soviet Empire. But that victory was not achieved...
...Boot's article was just another example of neoconservative naiveté. According to Boot, all the U.S. has to do to rid itself of terrorists is find a list of nondemocratic countries that support jihadists and set the people of those countries free with democracy. In fact, Iraqis may not vote themselves free from sectarian violence, and Iranian people, if liberated, may not want to give up access to nuclear resources. The U.S., after several years of failure, should have learned that those issues have to be dealt with in a pragmatic, case-by-case manner. Hanting Teng Taipei...