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...raise the question of how much the White House can control him--or wants to. Cheney makes his own rules; he decides what intelligence matters, what secrets are worth keeping and what force is worth using, and he defends his positions with a breathtaking indifference to consequences and to complaint from those who disagree. He went off to spend a relaxing--and unannounced--weekend hunting with friends who also happened to be donors and lobbyists at a time when both species find themselves under fire. And it turned into a nightmare for everyone involved...
...Franklin Roosevelt was a combat veteran. But for 50 years there has been a growing cultural chasm between the military and the rest of society. Those of us who haven't served have a special responsibility to listen to and try to understand those who have. The most common complaint I've heard from troops recently returned from Iraq is that Americans are oblivious to what soldiers have to do every day over there. At the heart of that lament, inevitably, is the debilitating emotional cost of combat...
...Lowellian in entryway E, room 31 may have been early-morning channel surfing but to the complainants nearby, his or her television-watching was too loud. Police responded to the disturbance complaint last Friday, Feb. 3 urging the boisterous watcher to turn it down. The Lowellian complied...
...Even officals at the EPA "let out an audible groan" when the original complaint came across their desks, as Tom Skinner, EPA Regional Administrator, recalls. Skinner says he knew it would be all too easy for the EPA's action to be portrayed as big, bad government agency "goes after warm, cuddly chocolate factory...
...While admitting that he himself appreciates the chocolate smell as he walks to and from the train each day, Skinner says people should appreciate the fact that the EPA was responsive to a local complaint and acted quickly to bring the company's attention to what could be a health risk to children, the elderly and people with heart and lung diseases...