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...Hiram, Georgia, U.S. I was bemused by Kinsley's wish for an apology from Washington's neocons. I feel it's enough that the country has spoken in the midterm elections and demanded a change in dialogue and, I hope, direction from our political élite in Washington. To expect the neocons to grovel is a bit much. Russ Smith Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan...
...First, bookstores tend to be community centers and to have good communications programs already going,” he says. “Not every retailer has customers that expect to hear from them...
...what years of traditional advocacy failed to do. Last week, three course packs were made available for free online, centralizing electronic resources students have already paid for. This demonstration is the start of an effort to put all course packs online by study card day next semester. We fully expect Hadfield and Goldenberg will bring this same ingenuity to other problems they plan to tackle, including the lack of accountability in teaching quality and financial security for student groups.While the UC must, of course, continue to work with the administration, it relies on too narrow a range of advocacy techniques...
What exactly can President Bush expect as a result of his White House meeting Monday with Abdel-Aziz al-Hakim, the Iraqi Shi'ite leader? The blunt answer: probably not much more than came out of his discussion last week with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. If the President is hoping al-Hakim will be any more favorably inclined toward U.S. interests than the Prime Minister is, Bush is in for frustrating time. A hardline Islamist, Al-Hakim has frequently given fiery anti-American speeches, denouncing U.S. policies in Iraq, Lebanon and Israel...
...newspapers proclaimed the Pope "prayed like a Muslim." The mosque visit will go down as a watershed in a papacy that just two months earlier had nearly drowned in a speech critical of Islam. Benedict, long doubtful of different faiths praying together, got lost in the moment. Don't expect such papal adventures to happen often in the future, but as an old Italian Vatican hand put it last week: "Traveling changes people...