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...Americans are expecting their lawmakers to show a sense of purpose that matches the moment, the message doesn't seem to be getting through. Nowhere is the disconnect more evident than in the "economic stimulus" bill that passed the House on the narrowest of party-line votes last week. The idea is to give the economy a badly needed jolt by getting businesses to hire and consumers to spend. But nearly three-quarters of the $100 billion tab would go toward corporate tax breaks, which might carry weight with political ideologues or help pay off campaign contributors but will...
Obvious to most, these students couldn’t fathom the disconnect between the university community and the real world...
...just feel very strange picking out my courses when so many people are worrying about their loved ones,” Erin B. Ashwell ’02 said. “There’s a big disconnect...
Though from 11,000 miles away it may be difficult to disconnect individuals from governments, in the case of China, as well as many other Asian countries, such a separation is imperative. It is essential that the media in the United States realize that despite the psychological comfort that can be derived from creating an “other,” it is actually in their own interests to portray a balanced picture of China and to help Americans understand a country that is becoming increasingly significant. Apparently, Americans need all the help they...
...Still, to hear Powell praising the "gifted" Chinese leadership and stressing cooperation with Beijing might well have caused something of a disconnect for many Americans more accustomed to hearing the Bush team describe China in more menacing tones. That may have been the political purpose of Secretary Powell's joint press conference in Australia with Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, the administration's arch China hawk. It looked like a self-conscious show of unity to signal conservative Republicans back home that making nice with China was administration policy, not just the Secretary of State...