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...similar ear for the power of the mundane. “The Abattoir” is a chapbook with 23 poems that frequently use the everyday to direct the reader on to more abstract concerns of love, loss, and a decaying spirituality. Written in Cambridge and published out of Georgetown, Kentucky, the poems frequently evoke the spirit of down-home Americana. In “Window-Shopping,” a broken-hearted man stares into the windows of a “haberdashery.” In “Overwintering”, a man looking...
...their superiors to go on to top-level education to learn about how policy is formed at the highest echelons. While most attend colleges run by the military, a few of these officers are given the opportunity to complete their study at civilian institutions like Harvard, Johns Hopkins, or Georgetown...
...being singled out for investigation for executing the Bush Administration's policies, "while whose who made those policies are busy writing their memoirs," says Paul Pillar, who was the agency's national intelligence officer for the Near East and South Asia from 2000-05, and now teaches at Georgetown University...
Between Coverage and Safety Net Pat's decision to save some money by buying short-term insurance was a big mistake, says Karen Pollitz, project director of Georgetown University's Health Policy Institute and a leading expert on the individual-insurance market. "These short-term policies are a joke," she says. "Nobody should ever buy them. It is false security that is being sold. It's junk...
...Catholics to "claim the moral high ground" fall flat. "The idea that [Christians] can dismiss Muslims as inherently more violent doesn't stand up to historical scrutiny, whatever the justifications we might have given for our wars and our massacres." Even more to the point, says Madigan, a Georgetown University professor of theology with a Ph.D. in Islamic religion, it is counterproductive for Christian leaders and scholars to lump together all Muslim interpretations as being somehow interchangeable. "Representing some Muslims' choices for peace and tolerance as simply one of the possible Islamic alternatives is not helpful. We cut the ground...