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...Staff looks for all sorts of manipulation of the democratic process to explain this outcome while avoiding criticizing the democratic process itself. It seems to me that there needs to be less uncritical respect for the democratic process and more understanding of its dangers and shortcomings. Since I have not seen any convincing non-religious evidence that gay marriage will destroy our society, perhaps we should consider that these bans on gay marriage are an example of “a number of citizens...who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse...
...ranked as the world's highest-earning piece of live entertainment. "If half of the people who've seen the show see the film," says executive producer Austin Shaw, "it will gross $350 million. And what about the 2.9 billion people who haven't seen it?" Such confidence might explain the decision not to cast big names in the lead roles. Moulin Rouge had Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman; Chicago had Renee Zellwegger, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Richard Gere; Phantom has 18-year-old Emmy Rossum (The Day After Tomorrow) and Scott Gerard Butler, 35, best known...
...time. Yet your personal political capital, Madame Secretary, is intact. The new National Security Adviser, Stephen Hadley, is not a rival, but your trusted former deputy. Your mission is obvious. Though Bush doesn't easily change his mind, remind him how Reagan made it into the history books. Explain that firmness of purpose degenerates into obstinacy unless errors are recognized, admitted and repaired. As a student of statecraft (you wrote the definitive book on the diplomacy of German reunification), gently remind the President how brilliantly his father harnessed a global coalition in the first Iraq war. In 1991, the means...
...always spotted calculation errors in presentations. "I expected him to say, 'Your numbers are wrong.'" Instead, he recalls, Tanzi just shrugged. "He said, 'Eight billion, 11 billion, 14 billion - it's all the same.'" Stunned, Ferraris urged Tanzi to call a meeting with the company's banks to explain the situation. Tanzi refused, and Ferraris quit. "I was flabbergasted," he says. A few weeks later, on Dec. 19, 2003, the biggest corporate scam in European history was exposed when Parmalat confirmed that an account it had claimed to have at Bank of America with €3.95 billion in cash simply...
Education reporters for the New York Times and the Boston Globe said last night that Harvard and other schools and universities need journalists in order to explain complex issues to their students, parents and teachers...