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...satellites. CIA directors have complained of this split-screen arrangement for years, noting that they can hardly be responsible for solid intelligence if they don't control the purse strings. Two years ago, Scowcroft, acting as chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, proposed to fix that disconnect once...
...recollection that I’m not white. I grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, a town virtually devoid of an Indian population, although it was within the heartland of the Indian diaspora. Because of this, I had limited exposure to Indians outside my immediate family. And the inevitable disconnect between my school and home lives fostered a disconnect between my Indian and American selves...
...Technology and the Self, even people who normally guard their privacy can experience a kind of "disinhibition" with blogs, in which there's a disintegration of boundaries. Bloggers easily lose sight of the fact that they're publishing to a potential worldwide audience of millions. The result is a disconnect between the intimate way people express themselves and the very public way such information is communicated. Still, when strangers log on to parenting blogs, the blogger's initial surprise--"Why would people want to read about me and my family?"--typically yields to pleasure rather than embarrassment. Jean-Marie Maier...
It’s the priorities, stupid. It’s all well and good to poke fun at Republicans for being prudes and Democrats for being licentious. But the disconnect present in the ruling Right’s (and it seems, American culture’s) fixation on sex as a horrid scourge, while less attention is paid to more important matters, is deadly serious when people start getting killed over this stuff...
...lieu of employers paying for health insurance, if each person personally paid for his or her health insurance, then it would go down. Too much government intervention and too many layers of disconnect between the insured and the insurer create an uncompetitive system. Karen Coffey Austin, Texas...