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...This is not just degrading. It is a fool's bargain--3,000 dead for a day's worth of nice words and a few empty U.N. resolutions. The Democrats would forfeit American freedom of action and initiative in order to get back - what? Another nice French editorial? To be retracted as soon as the U.S. stops playing victim...
This is not just degrading. It is a fool's bargain--3,000 dead for a day's worth of nice words and a few empty U.N. resolutions. The Democrats would forfeit American freedom of action and initiative in order to get back--what? Another nice French editorial? To be retracted as soon as the U.S. stops playing victim...
...needs facts? This was a debate carried to a Platonic level of abstraction, with little firsthand information to get in the way of the warring factions' preconceptions. For conservatives, the demon was a snobby, radical media-entertainment industry; for liberals, an overreaching, freedom-averse ruling party. ("Right-wing thought police declare Reagan, like dissent, off-limits," cried People for the American Way, as if this would lead inevitably to storm troopers forcing audiences to watch Fox News at gunpoint...
...there's a lesson in that. Bush has spoken eloquently of the need to expand democracy in the Middle East, and he has been equally eloquent about the nobility of public service. Why not combine both in a new, ?lite military corps? Call them Extreme Peacekeepers or the Freedom Corps or whatever, but seek out the sort of people who aren't normally inclined to join the military-idealistic college students who hope to become doctors, lawyers, politicians or engineers and are eager to do something noble (and burnish their r?sum?s) by serving their country...
...undergraduate students of film. Currently, many films are only offered in a format—35 milimeter for example—that can only be played on-site with the proper, expensive equipment. Copies of films in formats such as VHS and DVD would allow students more viewing freedom. A track within VES would help highlight that films are not just diversions for students when they are not poring over Joyce and Pinsky but are objects of study themselves...