Word: brokenness
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...Vote Re the quote in "Back & Forth" about letting thousands of voting machines stay broken for November's election because of a scheduling backlog [Sept. 1]: We can find water on Mars and land a man on the moon, but we can't produce a working voting machine in eight years? Heads should roll. Norma Wilkinson, Long Beach, California...
...think the plan that President Clinton laid out is the foundation for Israeli-Palestinian peace. Unfortunately, both societies are so broken internally, it will take an American diplomatic initiative to get the two parties to make peace...
...power, spending its day scurrying down to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. for orders. If it's not Cheney treating George Tenet as a court jester, it's some analyst badgered until he changes his assessment. What I'm trying to say is that it's not the CIA that is broken, it's Washington - which means the quick fix is to build a firewall between a hopelessly partisan Washington and the CIA. And it wouldn't cost much...
...seem to be getting more and more calls these days from ex-colleagues all lamenting the state of the CIA. They tell me the place is broken, beaten down by Washington politics, bad management, bad morale and political irrelevancy. "Shut it down," half of them tell...
...class. And in flight school, a culture more accepting of go-it-alone bad boys, his womanizing and partying were considered impressive even by the standards of naval aviators. But he had his limits; McCain always sensed how far he could bend a system without breaking it - or being broken...