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...Heckling and boos will not bring back the dead, nor rebuild houses destroyed by Mugabe's goons, nor fix the once vibrant economy he has crippled. But the extraordinary protest - Mugabe affected not to notice his hecklers, speaking on quickly but sternly though few could hear him - was, nevertheless, a direct jeer at the man who has ruled for almost three decades, a kind of national hiss after years of beatings and frustration...
...course we're hearing in this election season all the usual hand-wringing and exhortations about the state of education in America. But few of the arguments about school choice and vouchers and teachers' unions are new, and none provide a quick fix to our students' performance compared with their peers around the world. Closer to home, we do what we can, which is why back-to-school shopping may be our one truly recession-proof industry. We can drive less when gas prices rise; we can cut back on movies or fancy meals. But we'll never stop filling...
...Bible Building; he remarked that he had worked on the building's construction.) Carpentry may have influenced his later collages and their element of compartmentalizing in squares. It also supplemented Manny's work as a critic - though, he professed to Ollman, he never acquired practical expertise: "I can't fix anything...
...combat a movement that has only annihilation as its goal? In order to fix terrorism at large, we need to remedy the wrongs of the past 30 years. Remedy means to undo. The world pushed us to fight the Soviets. And those who did it walked away and left all the mess spread around. September 11 is a consequence of this. The bombing in Peshawar today is a consequence. The bombing in Algeria today is a consequence. Afghanistan was once a great place in perfect harmony with the rest of the world. Families sent their girls to university, wearing whatever...
...culture. Obama's academic style is much of his problem. For many, Obama reminds them of the Ivy League whiz kids they've dealt with at work during the latest downsizing. They look at him and see another bloodless young achiever coming down from the top floor to fix the ailing machine-tool company. They listen to his polished pitch in the employee cafeteria, and he wins some converts. But after he is finished, a few old-timers exchange knowing glances and mutter to one another about how young this hotshot is. Somebody makes a cynical and unkind remark about...