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...best - or at any rate the most promising - young American director. He had a taste for American eccentrics, for the vagaries of life on the American road, and a talent that extended beyond fictional features to concert films and documentaries. In their day, Citizen's Band, Melvin and Howard, Something Wild and Married to the Mob had about them a sort of humane nuttiness, an ability to catch the fun and shrewdness of ordinary, if hard-pressed, folks without ever patronizing their goofiness. He was the most pleasure-loving and pleasure-giving of directors...
...service for its own sake, but service as a way to strengthen people’s ties to their government.” This is an unfortunate misconception of the entire service movement. The point of voluntary service—paid or unpaid—is to free citizens from reliance on government programs and solutions, provide ways for Americans to dedicate their time to helping others, and unleash citizen energy on pressing, persistent problems in education, our environment, and disaster relief. The growth of the service movement, in fact, is a reflection of the reality that big government bureaucracies...
...talks derailed, Obama's more hands-off approach looked like a much smarter bet than McCain's all-in hand. But Obama may also now have some second thoughts about the virtues of national unity and citizen involvement. Sometimes it feels like democracy in action. Other times it feels like mob rule. The complexity of the problem and intricacy of the solution meant that the public response was more emotional than anything else. In a leadership vacuum, we got irrational belligerence, a desire to punish the greedheads that will take its broadest toll on the victims, not the perps...
...units, things didn't go well - the fateful 2003 decision to dissolve the Iraqi army proved to be a key strategic blunder that gave a massive boost to the insurgency. This week the U.S. will try again, transferring control of 54,000 of the 100,000-strong largely Sunni citizen patrols known as the Sons of Iraq (SOI) to a Shi'ite-led government many of them view with suspicion. The rest will remain on the U.S payroll, as part of a phased transfer...
...saying that instead of incorporating 20%, incorporate 60%, 70%," the sheikh responds as his men, several of whom are barely teenagers, mill about. Bereft of uniforms, their bright yellow vests and AK-47s are the only markings that distinguish them as citizen patrolmen...