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...short, yes, we did nothing except get our foot in the door. That was a huge first step, but now we must make good on our ability to make America more tolerant and its policies more sensible. After round after round of defeat, it’s tempting for Democrats to consider an electoral victory their ultimate achievement. Instead, it is a means to an end. Like it or not, there is more hard work on the horizon, and President Obama will need all the help he can get. Nathaniel S. Rakich ’10, a Crimson editorial writer...
...Directly or indirectly," says Carina Tertsakian, Congo team leader for Global Witness, "everyone involved in this conflict is benefitting from the trade in these resources except the Congolese people who are the victims of the war." The mining conglomerates have to come under political pressure, she argues. "They aren't likely to stop what they are doing overnight because of an attack of conscience." But choking off this flow of funds is not just about putting pressure on multinational corporations but also about forcing governments in the area, through firm diplomacy and tight financial screws, to uphold protocols and peace...
...less lifted - did not sour Rushdie from his conviction that religion is necessary to writers, if only because it provides the only available language on certain topics. "I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not - there are no words to express some things except religious words," he said. "For instance, 'soul." I don't believe in an afterlife or heaven or hell, yet there isn't a secular word for that feeling that we are not only flesh and blood. Whether you're religious or not you may find yourself obliged to use language shaped...
...think Culbreath will run the Quakers out of Jersey the way the Puritans ran them out of Massachusetts, except without the corporal punishment and book burning. Gotta love our roots, eh Harvard...
...country that was fed up with the Bush Administration, horrible wrong-track numbers, and an opponent with $700 million. We had $85 [million]. And we got 56 million votes. That's not too bad in this environment. All the really, really red states that everybody thought we might lose-except for Indiana, I guess-Montana, North Dakota, they all held. I think the [Republican] brand held up given the assault on it. This sort of Maureen Dowd nonsense, comic-book book theorizing about the Bushies who hijacked McCain--she can never write a serious column. It's just nonsense...