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...inability to give the war a clear definition or direction. The cabinet conceptualizes the war only in terms of what it is not: not the Clinton administration’s response to terrorism, not the Soviets’ disastrous foray into Afghanistan, not Vietnam. This may explain why the cabinet’s strategies have been largely unsuccessful, from the anticlimactic air campaign to, most egregiously, the failure to locate bin Laden...
This theory also helps explain why dogs were domesticated in the first place...
These figures suggest that sexual orientation may deserve limited consideration in risk analyses, but they do not explain why the FDA has allowed a residue of homophobia to remain on its policies for 17 years. In Sept. 2000, the FDA narrowly rejected proposals that would have reduced the abstinence period required of gay men to either one or five years. About half of the nation’s blood banks publicly supported a one-year rule, which would have lead to 112,000 new donors, according to FDA estimates...
...right-wing political successes. Europeans are indeed more racist than Americans are. A 1997 Eurobarometer poll found that a third of the citizens in EU countries described themselves as “very racist” or “quite racist.” But racism does not explain why the extreme rightist groups most associated with race baiting, such as Austrian Jorg Haider’s Freedom Party and Frenchman Jean Marie Le Pen’s National Front, have seen their public support crumble. Meanwhile, center-right parties have maintained or increased their power...
Tellier would enter the room and make a brief statement about the game. There was never much to say—the Lions usually got flat-out killed, and there’s only so much you can explain about a thrashing except to say that it happened...