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...That they will achieve their goal is virtually a given: How many times, in a standard western, has the bad guy won? (About as many times as the richest man in town has also been the most sympathetic.) What's at issue is not the speed of Virgil's hand but the intelligence of this cowboy's heart...
...often infuriatingly, in their political views. Says John Hibbing, another co-author of the study and a professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln: "We need to maybe recognize that we're not going to cause our political opponents at some point to kind of break down, head in hand, Perry Mason-style and say that they're wrong. They just see the world differently; they feel it differently...
...bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—an action the Bush administration had repeatedly denied it would take in the past few years —to this week’s announcement of an $85 billion loan for AIG, the Federal Reserve has offered a steadying hand in our current financial crisis. Though one might argue that the explicit mandate of the Federal Reserve is to maintain growth and control inflation, no two goals are more closely wedded to the economic well-being of the average worker and consumer. Therefore, it is essential that the government support...
...contrast, should historians of the future ignore such brilliant works of reportage as Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower or Dexter Filkins’ masterful account of his period in Iraq—The Forever War? Indeed, I have seen first-hand how rigorously Mr. Wright, a personal friend and distinguished journalist, pursues the finest, epiphanal details that are so often ignored by professional historians. The 60 pages of footnotes and list of more than 500 individuals he interviewed for his “journalistic” work would do any historian proud...
...With Mugabe and Tsvangirai now locked in a stalemate over control of key portfolios such as finance, security and information, the power-sharing deal appears to have failed in its first test of goodwill. Analysts say the agreement was vague on who would actually have the upper hand in running the government, and Mugabe and his generals have left no doubt that they intend to retain control of the real levers of power. "I think the game plan is to assume that the MDC has been softened up enough [by the past months of violence]] to ensure that they...