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...Administration wanted it to be? We would not be in the position we are in today. Tens of thousands of people have been killed in a raging civil war, the international goodwill following 9/11 has been wasted, and we have a huge deficit and a military that is being ground down. Even if this Administration could push a replay button, the result would be like the movie Groundhog Day--an endless repeat of the same mistakes...
...against all odds, they are now good friends. The protester has left Hutchinson's church, but no one wanted to stop meeting, because they had found a larger mission. Now they are out to show how people who disagree violently can debate civilly, even lovingly, and find some common ground. They know they won't change one another's core beliefs, but that doesn't mean they haven't changed...
Friends or not, it took a year to come up with a common-ground statement of goals: to decrease abortions, relieve the social and economic conditions that lead women to consider abortion, make adoption easier, condemn violence and keep talking. "One of the principles is the importance of factual information," says Lynn von Unwerth, a nurse at Asheville Planned Parenthood who has been attending the meetings from the start. And then she pauses: "That's something we're still wrestling with...
...Asheville's experiment in détente could be a model for any community to follow. He knows there will always be people who think it is wrong even to talk with people they disagree with. The hard-core "Culture-War Christians," he says, "have no interest in finding common ground. Their constituencies don't like it; they won't send in any more money." But that doesn't mean the conversation about all these issues of mind and heart and body are fated to be reduced to a fund-raising tool or political weapon. "The good news is that...
...While the ground is shifting, many questions remain about greenhouse policies. How ambitious will emission reduction targets be? Is carbon trading a way to shift funds from taxpayers and consumers to renewable-energy entrepreneurs and big business? Will these potentially valuable carbon permits be given away or sold at auction? What will be the balance between gdp growth and the environment? Will politicians continue to undermine an open market? In N.S.W., for example, the state government has granted BlueScope an exemption from its carbon trading scheme or any future carbon tax to help establish a new steel plant at Port...