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...likely to be. “So far,” Huffington writes, liberals “have shown little stomach for that fight.”So Huffington “goes on the offensive” for them. And oh, what an offensive. Within the first chapter, she invokes Orwell, dubs the George W. Bush administration a “Murderers’ Row of lethal bat-swingers,” and speaks of an enduring Dick Cheney fantasy involving nuclear terrorism against civilian targets. She describes waterboarding as “drowning rational thought...
Mankiw kept the audience chuckling with cracks about his safe job as a tenured professor, references to Chapter 26 of his “favorite textbook,” and “the mafia approach” of forcing banks to increase their capital stock, in which he supposed that the Treasury Department might say to an ailing bank, “You have a really nice bank here—I wouldn’t want anything bad to happen...
...careful analysis reveals a darker picture for pro-choice advocates. In the end he finds only 12 states that would be likely to recognize a woman's right to an abortion if Roe went down, while pro-choice groups generally believe there are 20. The organization of the chapter on each state - its constitution, its law and legal cases, possible pro-choice arguments and rebuttals to those argument - is more obviously useful (as some the book's p.r. material suggests) as a "road map" for pro-lifers than their foes...
...collaborated with West Pakistan's suppression of the East. In spite of this, or perhaps because of it, Ali Ahsan Mojaheed, general secretary of the Jamaat-e-Islami, a powerful political party that sided with Pakistan in 1971, thinks it's better to close the book on a tragic chapter in history rather than risk opening old wounds. After all, many who supported unity with Pakistan were also killed in reprisal attacks. "This is a dead issue," says Mojaheed. "It cannot be raised...
...dismaying final chapter for George W. Bush...