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...State of the Nation speech every summer. Last week Gloria Macapagal Arroyo jumped the gun on the speech scheduled for July 25 because, as she told her countrymen in a hurried radio address, the nation's state was so parlous it needed fixes that couldn't wait. "Let's confront the biggest, most painful political truth ... our political system has degenerated," the President said. Arroyo ordered her Cabinet to step down and announced a crusade to reform the government, reducing red tape and cleaning up the election process. Arroyo also said she couldn't resign in the wake of allegations...
...have no objection to arguments on the merits, but Finkelstein has refused to confront me on the merits,” he said. “I’m very confident in the conclusions I made in “The Case for Israel...
Summers said that, as only the seventh president of Harvard since 1865, he tries to carry on his position’s mandate to confront issues from a long-term, historical perspective...
...Amir Butler, head of the Australian Muslim Public Affairs Committee, agrees. "The only way to fight offensive ideas is to confront them intellectually," he says. "Legislation cannot make bad ideas disappear." Butler fears that "if Muslims rush to the courts, some people will get the impression we can't respond to the arguments and think there must be some truth in them." Without the law, he says, the pastors would have been ignored. Instead, "they've become martyrs." And their Supreme Court appeal will bring even more publicity. In silencing two voices, it seems, the law has provoked an uproar...
...precisely those imperfections--and the painful self-awareness of those failings etched in every crease of his face and reflected in those haunted eyes--that make him so compelling. For when the time came to confront the greatest moral challenge this nation has ever faced, this all too human man did not pass the challenge on to future generations. He neither demonized the fathers and sons who did battle on the other side nor sought to diminish the terrible costs of his war. In the midst of slavery's dark storm and the complexities of governing a house divided...