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...power looks farfetched to close observers of Palestinian politics. Indeed, many fear that if the decision by the Islamists to enter democratic politics is thwarted by the West, the real beneficiaries will not be Fatah, but al-Qaeda - which has long told Hamas that entering democratic politics is a dead-end road for an Islamist movement. The U.S. may yet prove it right...
Your article notes that many students drop out of school because they are bored. That is probably because our culture believes learning should always be fun and entertaining. Dropouts will find out what real boredom is like when they wind up in monotonous, dead-end jobs. But a wide range of abilities and talents exists among people. We made a big mistake when vocational education was de-emphasized or phased...
...Pelican”—a disturbing story about a mother who abuses her children—includes difficult subjects like matricide and incest. The audience surrounds the stage on all sides, according to co-producer Xienwei Ngiam ’07, to heighten the sense of emotional dead-end in which the characters find themselves...
...contrast to his then dead-end proposal to reform Social Security, so are lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. Last spring Alexander, along with Democratic Senator Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico, wrote to the prestigious National Academies, an umbrella group that includes the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering, and asked for a formal assessment of the U.S.'s eroding superiority in science and technology...
McCarthy ran for President four more times, to little note. Some aides complained of his diffidence and cynicism. Yet in one lightning flash, he had diagnosed the national exhaustion that a dead-end war brings and proved that antiwar fervor could change voters' minds. This was not so much political strategy as the almost theological mission of the amateur philosopher and published poet McCarthy was. Lines from his poem "Vietnam Message" could be the words of Gandhi or Pablo Neruda: "We will take our napalm and flame throwers/ out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...