Word: cannot
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...start, every day." At yet another gathering, he said the country should "work together to bring light to shine on all of God's children," a notion revisited movingly in the Inaugural when he charged the nation to help "the homeless," the "children who have nothing and those who cannot free themselves of enslavement to whatever addiction -- drugs, welfare, demoralization -- that rules the slums...
...bushels and the market price is $7.50 per bushel, the crooked broker may sell the contract to a colleague for $7.40. That gives the colleague a discount of 10 cents per bushel, or $500, some of which he kicks back to his partner. The customer probably cannot challenge the price because there is no record of precisely when the deal occurred...
Israel's political leaders cannot seem to decide how much force is appropriate or acceptable in the face of international criticism. During the past year soldiers have been instructed to beat rioters; drop gravel on them from helicopters; fire tear gas, rubber bullets, plastic bullets. None of it has ended the uprising. And even some Likud members doubt the new measures will do better. "I don't think there is a lot of logic or common sense in shooting a boy when he's already finished throwing his stone and is running away," said Minister Without Portfolio Ehud Olmert...
...I.D.F. alone cannot possibly fulfill the conflicting demands of a deeply divided nation. At best it can ensure that life for the Palestinians remains extremely difficult. Only political courage on both sides of the barricades can alter the painful status quo. And there can be no doubt that on both sides of the barricades, there is pain. "The Arabs are paying the higher physical price," says Ze'ev Schiff, defense editor of the Israeli daily Ha'aretz. "Israel pays the moral...
...repeated failures to forecast accurately and wearied by years of feuding, economists are moving toward a more eclectic yet pragmatic ^ philosophy. Going out the window are the overly rigid, dogmatic formulas for prosperity. Many academics are attacking their peers for getting so wrapped up in mathematical models that they cannot understand the unpredictable diversity of the real world. "We have learned that the various schools of thought all have important elements of truth in them," says Michael Boskin, designated chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. "But none of them is by itself a sufficient explanation of what...