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...inevitable. For it to be incompetent over a long period is deeply corrosive to its capacity to lead. "People hate the U.S. for not being able to handle the situation in Iraq," says Zbigniew Lewicki, professor of American Studies at Warsaw University. "It has failed in its duty to fix things." In the eyes of many Europeans, the same goes for Afghanistan, where the Taliban is resurgent, and for Islamic terrorists, too. Al-Qaeda and its allies have not mounted another attack on the scale of Sept. 11, but continue to take lives. Americans can find plenty to criticize...
...better for specialty remodelers, who can target deep-pocketed consumers like Mike Engel of Bend, Ore. When he decided to fix up his three-car garage, he characterized it as a "dumping ground and completely dysfunctional." So extreme was the clutter that of his three vehicles, he could fit only the Porsche inside. Engel contacted Mike Maxwell, owner of Garage Improvement, a Garage Envy dealer in Oregon, who completed the makeover this July for $15,500. Maxwell added stain-resistant rubber flooring, cabinetry, recessed lighting and a hot-and-cold water faucet so Engel could wash his cars...
...unwillingness to help. “Cambridge has never been able to sit down and in some simple way say ‘Give us this,’” he said. “That is structurally a deficit that we’ve got to fix.” —Staff writer Laura A. Moore can be reached at lamoore@fas.harvard.edu...
...stretch the legs, and clear your mind while the cold winds outside Wigglesworth make your eyes tear. Your $1 coffee specials are all that get me through reading period. There are countless students like me in need of a smile, a strange brew of Vietnamese coffee, and a fix to cure midwinter blues. I don’t want to come back for my 25th reunion to see a shoe store—or worse, another bank— in your place. I want to be able to share a cone of Cake Batter ice cream with my children...
Again, the critique is one of realpolitik, and if anything, comes from the moderate right—Ricks is saying that we’ve made a mess, and the only way to fix it is with a Hail Mary decision to put more Special Forces troops into the fray...