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...another military engagement? When Bush talks about winning in Iraq, what is it that we will have won? Will it be worth our military losses of more than 3,800 Americans killed and thousands more maimed or mentally affected? The NIE report is a reminder of Bush's disconnect with the reality that we Americans are forced to live with. Phil Wilt, Van Nuys, Calif...
...poor from the fruits of South Africa's boom. Business Day editorialized that "the growing social distance between the ANC leaders and the rank and file" mirrored the way "ANC public representatives have become estranged from the poor black communities they are supposed to represent." There was a "disconnect" between South Africa's ruling party and the country. "Before there can be a new dawn in the ANC, the old first has to die," it concluded...
...inaugural interns at the Women’s Center, Alford has worked to create a sense of solidarity within the female community. She started the now-annual Naked Ladies’ Brunch and has tried to create a sense of unity for Harvard women. Feeling a disconnect between the female community and Harvard as a whole, Alford decided to create Amplify magazine, a journal about gender issues, of which she is the editor-in-chief. Alford has also been active in the black community at Harvard. She is a member of BlackCAST and has been both a staff member...
Gevisser documents how Mbeki's personal dreams are on hold too. The South Africa he returned to never matched the hopes he had nourished in exile. After so many years in Europe spent sublimating his life to the struggle, Gevisser writes, Mbeki felt a "disconnect" to his homeland once he arrived there. And he soon realized he would be forever in Mandela's shadow. For Mbeki, faced with crises of Zulu-ANC violence, crime, aids and poverty, the homecoming triumph never happened...
...Willey and Snow say it’s their biographical mix that would help them, as president and vice president respectively, pull the Undergraduate Council out of what they say is a deepening disconnect with the student body...