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...Brahimi plan was an indication of how little time the U.S. and its allies have to lose if they hope to get help sorting out the mess. "This is a historic struggle," Blair said in the Rose Garden last week, "and we're at a very, very crucial moment...
Steinem said, "Achieving a society in which men raise children as much as women do is crucial." But the role of men in the family has changed dramatically in the past 30 years. As a father and husband, I cook, wash dishes, do laundry and love and nurture my children--and I'm not the only father who does. What planet has Steinem been living on? DOUG EASTON Corvallis...
...promising that it would require no more than three hours per week of my time. It turned out to be more than 30. But I'm not complaining. His idea to keep the show close to the way I operate in my business life was, I think, crucial to its success. He found that very interesting, and at first I couldn...
...have all been bystanders to genocide," Samantha Power wrote in the opening of her 2002 book, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide. "The crucial question is why." Combining archival research with her own reporting from the killing fields of Rwanda and Bosnia, Power, a former freelance journalist and war correspondent, and a graduate of Harvard Law School, set out to explain why the U.S., at the height of its power, failed to stop the major genocides of the 20th century. Power's study examined U.S. responses to such horrors as the Ottoman massacre of the Armenians...
...order to stop gay marriages in San Francisco while deftly saying on The Tonight Show that he had no problem with gays marrying. Think of any other Republican who could do these things, and you begin to understand the depth of Arnold's talent. He has become a crucial element in making the G.O.P. seem even faintly appealing to social liberals and moderates, and represents the lingering Cheshire smile of Reagan Republicanism in the new century: the optimism, the inclusiveness. Above all: the charm. --By Andrew Sullivan