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Summers is a smart man fluent in economic jargon. It is all too easy for him to gloss over the moral basis for our social welfare system. In the current debate over school vouchers, made more immediate by the recent decision by Philadelphia to privatize its schools, we must include the incalculables in our cost-benefit analysis. Summers should remember that while the language of economics and incentives can be a useful tool, it does not tell the whole story...
...Lankans have been flocking to "Trinco" to see what they have been missing all these years. Most head to the Nilaveli Beach Hotel, tel: (94-2) 622-071, about 15 km north of town. Originally set up as a luxury resort, the place has lost some of its gloss. Still, the beach stretches for at least a mile and rooms go for as little as $15 a night. Once there, you can take in a boat trip to nearby Pigeon Island for snorkeling. Or head into town to see the 17th century Fort Frederick and Swami Rock, which rises...
That is why, despite all the pomp and gloss, rock star displays and true-to-the-album reenactment, The Calling, is still credible as a rock band. Frontman Band’s melodrama only intensifies the band’s presence. The defeated to-the-knee collapses amidst power ballads and Top 40 hit “Wherever You Will Go” conveyed an unearthly burden, as if The Calling were sent from heaven to deliver redemption. The beyond-cool ’60s swagger and spasms during the fervidly-charged “Nothing’s Changed?...
That is why, despite all the pomp and gloss, rock star displays and true-to-the-album reenactment, The Calling, is still credible as a rock band. Frontman Band’s melodrama only intensifies the band’s presence. The defeated to-the-knee collapses amidst power ballads and Top 40 hit “Wherever You Will Go” conveyed an unearthly burden, as if The Calling were sent from heaven to deliver redemption. The beyond-cool ’60s swagger and spasms during the fervidly-charged “Nothing’s Changed?...
...intention is not to gloss over the differences. The protesters and counter-protesters probably disagree on many of the finer details of a Mideast peace plan, from the final status of East Jerusalem, to the rights of Palestinian refugees, to the status of large Israeli settlements. These issues remain stumbling blocks to any agreement. However, on a fundamental level we agree: the violence must end; terrorism and state terror must end; the occupation must end; and a just peace includes a Palestinian state...