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...will vote differently in November. Why does it seem so intolerable? I fear that something cultural - and quite dangerous - is at work. In our public discourse, Americans can't seem to discuss and debate issues with anything approaching respect or intellectual honesty. We oversimplify, we distort, we dismiss. We turn the challengers into enemies. And when that madness infects our private discourse, our family members become foes. Not good for family harmony - and not a very wise way to go about choosing a world leader. Mitch Neuger, SAN FRANCISCO...
...controlling wealth than in creating it." But Obama, while still hitting McCain on the economy, chose to launch a broader attack against his opponent, describing McCain as having an intellectual bankruptcy that has left him dependent on small change. "If you can't beat your opponent's ideas, you distort those ideas and maybe make some up," Obama said of McCain's tactics. "If you don't have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run away from. You make a big election about small things...
...will vote differently in November. Why does it seem so intolerable? I fear that something cultural--and quite dangerous--is at work. In our public discourse, Americans can't seem to discuss and debate issues with anything approaching respect or intellectual honesty. We oversimplify, we distort, we dismiss. We turn the challengers into enemies. And when that madness infects our private discourse, our family members become foes. Not good for family harmony--and not a very wise way to go about choosing a world leader. Mitch Neuger, SAN FRANCISCO...
...jointly sponsored by Harvard’s Fairbank Center for East Asian Research and the New England China Seminar, Xing juxtaposed the brutality he witnessed with the history perpetuated by the Chinese government, which Xing said has been sanitized. Xing said that the Chinese government has intentionally tried to distort information about the Cultural Revolution and that through his film, he hopes to provide the next generation with accurate information about that period in history. “The cruelties I experienced and heard remain in my memory,” Xing said in an interview through an interpreter...
...phenomenon was particularly prevalent in the mortgage market. Central bankers cannot escape censure, either. In his memoirs Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, writes: "I was aware that the loosening of mortgage credit terms for subprime borrowers increased financial risk, and that subsidized home-ownership initiatives distort market outcomes. But I believed then, as now, that the benefits of broadened home ownership are worth the risk...