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...Iraq has heightened their differences. In the government's view, Labor's hostility to the war reflects all that is wrong with the leftist world view: excessive faith in the United Nations, failure to grasp the global nature of the terrorist threat, and an unwarranted suspicion of the world's most powerful nation. For Labor, the "rush to war" in Iraq exposed the blind spots in the government's foreign policy: excessive closeness to Washington ("sucking up" is Latham's term), insufficient respect for the U.N., and a wrongheaded readiness to fight other people's wars...
...politicians and future leaders, not having ROTC available on campus is an act of negligence. So long as there are Harvard students who may be making decisions in a decade or two as to whether they should send a country to war or not, they should be allowed to grasp what exactly is involved...
...another rope, sit up on your hand, ok. The bull is still but for the vague vibrations of muscle and bone, and sitting on it feels like straddling the back of a suede couch with a massage setting and, incidentally, horns. My nerves boil over into panic, and I grasp for a question I haven’t asked yet—should I move back? In which direction? This time it won’t be a baseball and my finger but a hoof and my head, and I want to be damn well sure I do this right...
...Mark Latham show. As a political act that veers from somber to slapstick, earthy to edgy, the new leader could fill all the channels on a satellite television network with his mix of messages. So, on the eve of an election where victory is not beyond its grasp, the key to understanding what a Labor government would do - and how it would change Australia - is Latham: his family, character and style, his beliefs and passions, his policy ideas and political record...
...Ultimately, it boils down a firm grasp of the fundamentals and to execution,” Farrar said. “Having said that, the players at Harvard are very smart people so that gives us many, many options...