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...everyone is so gung-ho. Over the past few days, the legitimacy of a Kennedy senatorship has been hashed and rehashed by pundits, politicians, and the people themselves. Still, if Kennedy is to be handed the seat, American voters should be concerned, and not just because the prospect reeks of dynastic politics. Her case is merely the latest and most blatant example of how politicians’ personalities eclipse the ideas they represent...
Khalif may be an unlikely candidate. But few of the women on the ballot are striding gung ho into the spotlight. Many hail from prominent families or are the wives of powerful sheiks or former Awakening leaders who plan to run in the more important parliamentary elections, slated for later this year. While some - like a schoolteacher in Hit, a town about 85 miles west of Baghdad - volunteered, others were approached by male party leaders and told they had to run. "I was not going to run, but they asked me to do it," says Fatima Mahmoud Marzouk, another candidate...
When The Shield debuted in spring 2002, it was hard not to see it as a 9/11 parable. Mackey was Dick Cheney with stronger pecs, going to the dark side to do what couldn't get done the pretty way. The Shield asked--as did 24, in a more gung-ho fashion--how much brutality we are willing to accept for our safety...
...long look at what the Iraq War is doing to its young men and women. Body of War, which Donahue produced and co-directed with Ellen Spiro, and which airs tonight on the Sundance Channel in honor of Veterans Day, tells the story of Tomas Young, a formerly gung-ho soldier who was paralyzed after less than a week in Iraq. Donahue spoke with TIME about getting kicked off MSNBC, why Iraq war movies are not a draw, and the death of the word "liberal...
...seek all the changes he has promised - is remote as long as the economy is struggling. After all, what's the point of raising corporate taxes when companies aren't profitable or raising capital-gains taxes when stock prices and real estate values are plummeting? Even a gung-ho tax raiser like Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts acknowledges that the economic climate is wrong. "Not now," Frank said recently of tax hikes...