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...between business leaders and environmentalists, between those who would claim drilling is a cure-all and those who claim it has no place," Obama said in a speech at Andrews Air Force Base in Washington. "This issue is just too important to allow our progress to languish while we fight the same old battles over and over again...
...trouble with compromise, however, is that it requires laying down one's arms, and few of those who fight the same old battles have any interest in conceding. They want to win. On Wednesday, environmental groups responded with outrage to Obama's decision, fearing that drilling would damage sensitive marine environments, especially in the vulnerable Alaskan Arctic, a region over which greens have been fighting oil companies for years. "Today's announcement is unfortunately all too typical of what we have seen so far from President Obama - promises of change, a year of deliberation, and ultimately, adoption of flawed...
...Right up through the line-up we know we were in a dog fight,” Fish said. “They took it to us. Good young coach—he’s recruited a great bunch of kids, and he beat...
...South Asian immigrant culture; all cultures have a darker side. And studies specifically demonstrate that the problem is not related to cultural practices such as arranged marriage but the idea of the woman as property. The main takeaway from these stigmas and cultural issues is that South Asians must fight the problem by taking a culturally specific approach to change ideas about gender roles in our households, neighborhoods, and communities...
...Russian security forces] are violent with us, and we have the right to act out in violence against them, to defend ourselves and our relatives. So this idea, this word terrorist, when it is applied to people fighting in the Caucasus, is an artificial word that was made up to discredit the resistance," she said. After describing how she took up arms in 1993 against Russian-backed forces in Abkhazia, a disputed region of Georgia, she added, "We lose our men and we choose to fight back. Does that make us terrorists...