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Eight days after 31 Wyoming Republicans filed their names to fill the state's vacant Senate seat, an orthopedic surgeon and former rodeo physician has emerged as the newest U.S. Senator. Gov. Dave Freudenthal announced earlier today that Dr. John Barrasso will assume the Senate seat of the late Senator Craig Thomas, who died of leukemia on June...
Even if cutting off Gaza brings down Hamas, the alternative could prove to be a whole lot worse. If Hamas fails, hard-line jihadist factions, including al-Qaeda, which are flourishing amid Gaza's poverty and misery, may fill the gap. "If Hamas can break the back of these big, powerful clans, then they can bring a measure of order to Gaza," says Nicholas Pelham, an International Crisis Group senior analyst in Jerusalem...
...shouldn't have been, but it was. Science thrives on order: tidy laboratories and plenty of graph paper. Catastrophe dwells in chaos. No matter how much we learn, scientifically, about the behavior of flames or the criminal mind or the dynamics of war, chaos still has its dominion. We fill the gap between science and chaos, between the known risks and the unknowable dangers, with bravery...
...decision not to compete in the senate race increases the odds that popular City Councillor Anthony D. Galluccio—who has run for the Senate seat twice before and is the only Cambridge elected official running—will prevail in this fall's special election to fill the seat...
...provide services that the military used to perform-like preparing food (or KP duty)-as an example of paying other people to do what Americans should do for themselves. And while the all-volunteer U.S. Army is a far cry from the barbarian mercenaries that Rome eventually used to fill out its legions, there is a dangerous chasm growing between the U.S. military-a subculture with a bracing value system emphasizing service, discipline and common purpose-and the slovenly culture at large. "In my Princeton class of '56, 450 of the 750 graduates served in the military," says Charles Moskos...