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...earlier this month. Caught short by a sick nanny, my son, who was accustomed to eating leftovers from the refrigerator, sat in silence with his 25 classmates at tables in the nursery-school cafeteria, while city workers served a leisurely, five-course meal. One day, when I arrived to collect him, a server whispered for me to wait until the dessert course was over. Out in the hall, one of the staff shouted for "total quiet" to a crowd of 4-year-olds awaiting the next lunch seating. "I will now read you today's menu," he told them. "First...
...time isn’t quite so literary, there’s no guarantee it will behave quite so well. That’s what the Tea Partiers and the Angry Young Men really share: the desire for some display of humility from a government all too willing to collect our money, and not willing enough to explain just why we should let it run things...
...military personnel.) So can Haiti ever move ahead if such a large share of it has so much trouble moving at all, without the prosthetic help needed to be productive again? Artificial-limb donations are beginning to trickle in; doctors are urging charities, especially in the U.S., to collect used prostheses, as the late Princess Diana convinced them to do for land-mine victims. But it's obvious that Haiti can't rely on foreigners to fill such a vast order, or to provide the necessary physical therapy its amputees will require to be able to use them...
...with the NSA to protect and secure the privacy of its users. After all, the NSA is a natural ally for Google when ensuring that people’s accounts are not compromised such that the U.S. will face any danger. The NSA’s right to collect information it deems to be a threat to the American public is vested in President Ronald Reagan’s executive order on Dec. 4, 1981—the order allows certain federal agencies, such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency, to gather information they deem...
...give the NSA carte blanche to collect as much information as they want from companies like Google—we caution against the collection of private information that does not threaten national security. In order to protect the American people, a partnership such as Google’s with the NSA should be limited to national security purposes. If the NSA uses this situation to obtain private information that is not necessary to provide for the common defense, Google users should reconsider the security of their information...