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...country, including the U.S. The EU has helped Europe progress toward economic and political unity. Although some member states are still struggling, the EU can now effectively handle European economic affairs, as its success so far proves. The only function NATO serves that the EU cannot is the direct inclusion of the U.S. in European affairs. Although the U.S.’s interests are currently in line with Europe’s, this will not necessarily always be the case. The U.S. is a useful ally for Europe now, but its military dependence on the U.S. places it permanently...
...soon realized that there would be only the participants of the ceremony - 24 victims, survivors and first responders, a few local civic and church dignitaries - and our press pool, and so unlike some of these papal media appointments, we would be just a few yards away with a direct view...
...prayer he read was a simple and direct, a call for peace and comprehension: "God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the earth. Turn to your way of love those whose hearts and minds are consumed with hatred. God of understanding, overwhelmed by the magnitude of this tragedy, we seek your light and guidance as we confront such terrible events...
...Axing transfer admissions has created a surfeit of sob stories, most of which ought to be neither trivialized nor ignored. But at the end of the day, the outrage from current Harvard students has been somewhat surprising. After all, it was out of attentiveness to undergraduates’ direct personal interests that the administration made the decision to banish transfers. Just three days prior to the move, rising seniors in Winthrop House had been casually informed that, thanks to a looming Malthusian crisis, the cushy senior suites they’d be expecting would be replaced by bunk beds...
...intellectuals sought to place his "élitism" in proper historical context. George Will located Obama securely in Adlai Stevenson's wine cellar, representing the effete strand of liberalism that corrupted F.D.R.'s party of the working people. William Kristol went straight for the main chance, positing Obama as a direct descendant of - yes - Karl Marx, who famously proclaimed religion to be the "opiate" of the masses. As the Marx meme fluttered across Fox News, you could almost hear the vast sigh of relief: Obama's gaffe had put Republican propagandists back in their comfort zone. Rather than fight a defensive...