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...Tony Blair-Gordon Brown era. The people who once famously claimed to be "tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime" chose instead to be even tougher on the victims of crime. Some young hooded lout threatens you or your family's safety, so you clip his ear, and an army of social workers springs to his defense while the full might and majesty of the law are brought down on you, with all the consequent personal and financial penalties. Robert Frederick Birkett, Drinkstone Green, England...
...Olympics, China's leaders have seemingly been caught off guard by the most predictable of challenges: discontent in Tibet and international condemnation of Beijing's record of repression. The extent of their surprise can be gauged by their reaction--a brutal crackdown on dissent at home and a deaf ear to criticism from abroad--which is more reminiscent of the heavy-handed communist regime of old than the modern, moderate Beijing that the Olympics are meant to showcase...
...keen a political ear in a candidate, though, can be a liability, since it can keep him or her from hearing anything else--like the facts. Clinton's biggest error so far has been bending events to bolster her credentials, as with her exaggeration of the danger she faced on a 1996 trip to Bosnia. Moreover, several of her advisers complain that she has been late to embrace big foreign policy ideas. When I asked if Clinton had tackled the question of foreign assistance as a tool of counterterrorism, for example, an adviser said some aides keep trying to "push...
...reflects the joy and exuberance you see from the audiences who are hearing the show live [in the movie]." U23D makes the most of its dimensionality, plunging you into the middle of teeming stadium crowds, without the elbow in your ribs or the drunk "Woo hoo!" girl in your ear. And unlike $70 nosebleed seats, the $17 movie tickets get you close enough to Bono's outstretched hand to nearly feel him graze your cheek. Some fans are showing up for the film ready to take part--during a glittering shot of a crowd holding up thousands of cell phones...
...otherwise might have been subjected to the trauma of a lobotomy. While Ayd recognized the power of antipsychotic medications, he also believed they could never replace other forms of care. As he told TIME in 1957, the drugs were "not a substitute for compassion, understanding, patience [or] an attentive ear...