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...first time in 50 years, it is the U.S. that needs Europe's help, rather than the other way around. Americans realize that, without European diplomacy, money and soft power, freedom's march would be a lot more halting. In Kiev, Sarajevo, Ankara, Ramallah and even Tehran, the E.U. is having a more constructive impact than the U.S. Yet the E.U.'s transformative power is often confused with weakness. The E.U. doesn't change countries by threatening to invade them. Its biggest threat is not intervention but withdrawal of the hand of friendship and especially the prospect of membership...
...FROM RELIGIOUS fanatics of any faith who are convinced they know the truth and have a right to impose their beliefs on others. The narrowing of the separation of church and state in the U.S. is a frightening trend that conjures up images of religious persecution rather than religious freedom. It is a mystery to me how people who claim to be followers of Jesus can wage war, seek to disenfranchise those who differ from them, and justify torture...
...Fidelity Freedom 2035 Fund, for folks retiring in 2035, automatically moves money to more conservative investments as the years...
...past few years, I have come to know well how words suddenly lose their familiar meanings when encountered in a different society or culture. I was not surprised when reading Bush's full speech to encounter his own special meaning of such resonant words as "compassion" and "freedom." For instance, his compassion was aimed at "any citizen who feels isolated from the opportunities of America...
...identical with one's thoughts and impulses as they arise continuously and discursively in one's mind, generating desire, anxiety, fear and guilt, nor indeed limited by them, is to be aware of the possibility of controlling one's thoughts and of moving toward a new kind of spiritual freedom...