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...when it is often too dangerous for them to leave their compounds. The officials say Schmidt's trip is at the request of the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalizad, but is supported at the highest levels of the White House. "We want to see if there's a disconnect between what people in the United States are seeing on their televisions and in their newspapers, and the reality on the ground," a senior administration official said...
...miseducation we all too often accept is not neutral but passive. The administration essentially says that you can take classes here about pressing social dilemmas if you want to, but that’s your own choice—as if we could actually choose to disconnect ourselves from the world in which we live. Sure, we have a required Social Analysis core, but what’s the overwhelmingly popular course in that department? Ec 10, about as consumer-oriented a class as you can get. It relies on the premise that to think logically is to think self...
...presidential poll. The elections are unique because the frontrunners for president - Kaczynski and Donald Tusk, head of the Civic Platform - are both prominent Solidarity figures, and because for the first time since 1989 economics is as important as ideology in determining the outcome. "There's always been a disconnect between politics and the economy," says Witold Orlowski, an adviser to outgoing President Aleksander Kwasniewski. No party ever gets the blame, for example, for Poland's groaning state finances. But now, Orlowski argues, persuading voters to accept the need for painful structural reforms and a slimmer welfare state "will...
...Gadgety goodness aside, this is more of a Mediocre Mouse than a Mighty one, especially sitting on my desk next to the Logitech MX1000 10-button wireless laser mouse with lithium-ion battery that I connected to the Mac about six months ago and likely won't disconnect anytime soon...
...Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. "Packaging it surrounded by tips on cosmetics and dating and popularity in school is a dangerous precedent." But Thomas Nelson isn't dodging its detractors. "To say we shouldn't have pieces on real life, that's a disconnect," says Brenda Noel, the company's project manager for Real. "Jesus didn't just hang out in churches. He was out on the streets." Like it or not, Real might follow Him out there. --By Sean Gregory