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...help but feel like I’ve accidentally taken some kind of serious mind-altering substance. It’s not that people on both sides don’t have facts and theories at their disposal. But in the course of all the intellectual combat, I have a strange impression that the dialogue has moved farther and farther away from what ought to be its primary focus: the nature and implications of poverty and inequality in American society...
...they are intended to achieve. Success is measured in days and weeks-in polling blips-rather than months or years. This has been a terrible thing: Presidents need to be thinking past the horizon, as Jimmy Carter belatedly proved. Some of his best decisions-a strict monetary policy to combat inflation, a vigorous arms buildup against the Soviet threat-bore fruit years after he left office and were credited to his successor, Ronald Reagan. But then, Carter was among the worst recent Presidents as a Permanent Campaigner...
...sergeant who said, "Look at these Afghans. Why the hell should we be fighting their war?" Well, after 9/11, the war against the merciless Taliban regime suddenly became our war as well. I completely understand what men say in the heat of battle because I spent a year in combat myself. But slowly American troops will weed out the enemy, and as its desperation grows, we will continue to stride ahead with confidence and assurance, knowing we will punish those who dared to mess with our country, an America we have sworn to protect. Albert Shepard, Sergeant, U.S. Army Camp...
Knowledge-based programs such as Medicare Rights are drawing new enlistees with that boomer mantra of achieving personal growth. Retired elementary school teacher Linda Sicher, 58, of New York City, for example, pieced together several volunteer turns to combat her greatest postwork fear: "that my brain will die." Not a chance. Each activity has taught her something new, and she has been able to connect the dots between them. Once every month she's on call at the Mt. Sinai Sexual Assault and Violence Intervention (SAVI) program, ready to speed to the side of a rape or abuse victim before...
...sergeant who said, "Look at these Afghans. Why the hell should we be fighting their war?" Well, after 9/11, the war against the merciless Taliban regime suddenly became our war as well. I completely understand what men say in the heat of battle because I spent a year in combat myself. But slowly American troops will weed out the enemy, and as its desperation grows, we will continue to stride ahead with confidence and assurance, knowing we will punish those who dared to mess with our country, an America we have sworn to protect. Albert Shepard, Sergeant, U.S. Army Camp...