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...this mix of political canniness with a lack of political slickness that helps explain the extraordinary pulling power of this 59-year-old, softly spoken former school captain, who puts on a brown cardigan as the sun starts lowering over the verandah. He is regarded as a hero by many of the Greens' mainly young members, and, by an increasing number of other voters in an electorate largely cynical about their leaders, as principled and consistent...
...people say that the reason that whole “war” started is that there were a bunch of guys who just had too much time on their hands. How exactly do you explain the rationale for an incident that kind of got out of hand, and resulted in the death of a lot of seafood...
...many people will make up stories to explain why the Europeans—and everyone else, for that matter—take such a keen interest in the United States, its culture and its language. Stories to account for their astoundingly successful efforts to teach their younger generations to speak English, for their indomitable preference for American clothes, music, movies and television programs at the expense of their native industries, for their incessant focus on America in their news coverage (to the point of following our election more closely than their own), for their avid taste for American food?...
...drugs and no pandemic action plan. H5N1 vaccine, still in development, would not arrive in time to make a difference. If a pandemic occurred tomorrow, says Stohr, Asia would be "playing it by ear," politically improvising even as the death toll rose. "One of the most difficult things to explain to the public after a pandemic would be why we weren't prepared, because there have been enough warnings," he adds...
Kerry correctly explained during the debate the high standard that American foreign policy must meet. Especially when we launch a pre-emptive invasion of another country, an American president must be able to explain to our citizens why that invasion was essential and unavoidable. He or she also should be in a position to persuade our friends around the world that this is the case...