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...have to say, though, that I don’t just see nostalgia in Wyeth’s paintings. I happened to be in New York the day he died, and was able to spend a good, long time in front of “Christina’s World,” which the Museum of Modern Art has held since 1949. Christina was a real acquaintance of Wyeth’s, and following a childhood illness was paralyzed from the waist down. She refused to use a wheelchair, and instead grabbed and crawled her way through the physical...
Humility, gratitude and sacrifice. From his first words, Barack Obama let us know that even on a day so bright, he was not blinded. Not by the cloud of witnesses in front of him. Not by the lights of cameras sending his words across the planet. That he was willing to sound so somber on his day of celebration tells us many things at once. At a time of scarcity, do not waste opportunities. When the world is watching and willing to follow, tell them where you want to take them. And above all, tell the truth. (See pictures...
Very few people are going to read Change for America front to back. Broken up into topical essays, it's easy to jump back and forth between an explanation of how the Department of Homeland Security stinks to an argument in favor of a new National Energy Council. And while much of the book delves into government bureaucracy to an almost molecular degree, all Americans (even those who don't lean left) should flip through. You'll learn about your government (you'll re-learn all that stuff you picked up in high school and quickly forgot...
...Underemployed workers don't necessarily see it that way. Last month, hundreds of them protested forced-leave policies in front of the Council of Labor Affairs in Taipei. Since then, the council, a government agency, has required employers to amend employee contracts to reflect the reduced hours and to guarantee that income stays above minimum wage for workers facing severe cuts...
...Throughout his campaign Obama correctly (if incompletely, considering the near civil war boiling over in neighboring Pakistan) identified Afghanistan as the central front in the war on terrorism. He has echoed the demands of commanders on the ground for more troops, and the Pentagon has tentatively agreed to send as many as 30,000 more U.S. soldiers to the country. That will nearly double the number of American troops on the ground, and bring the total number of foreign soldiers, including those of NATO nations, to about 92,000. (Iraq, which is smaller in both size and population...