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Sesame Street's genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept. The polls can tell a President what the American people want to hear, but after so many years of sandbox politics and childish games, there comes a time to grow up. Given the hard choices, does the President think we're ready to handle complexity and delay gratification? If not now, when? Professor Obama has at least talked to us like we're adults. The question remains whether President Obama will govern as though he believes...
...that? You could start with the Metropolitan Museum. The nation's largest and wealthiest art museum is in no danger of disappearing. But having watched its mighty endowment shrink last year from $2.9 billion to $2.1 billion, its administrators decided a few months ago to cut staff 10%. The Met is not alone. Endowments have shrunk everywhere, and sizable budget cuts have been the rule at museums in Atlanta, Baltimore, Denver, Detroit, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and San Diego. In February the 35-year-old Las Vegas Art Museum simply gave up and shut its doors for good...
Cheney, Dick •blame for 9/11 is placed by on Richard Clarke, who repeatedly (and as recently as one week prior to it) warned about the danger of such an attack...
When it comes to humanity's darkest moments, time is both a blessing and a curse. Firebombed cities get rebuilt. Saplings grow in abandoned death camps. Wounded soldiers heal or pass on. Yet with rebirth comes the danger of forgetting, of repeating old mistakes and of failing to learn history's bloodiest lessons...
...Moussavi, much more relaxed if not subdued, said he had decided to run because he felt Iran was in great danger. The country could be managed in two different ways, he argued: by adventurism, instability, grandstanding, heroic sloganeering, illusions, superficiality and a disregard for law; or by the way of rationality and expertise. He accused Ahmadinejad of creating a culture of dictatorship, in which Iranians were becoming desensitized to violations of the law by those in power...