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This postpartisan era everybody wants is not going to happen, and the great longing for it is childish. What Americans say they want--or even what they think they want--needs to be taken with a grain of salt. Their objection, very often, is less to politics than to arithmetic. Do they want our health-care system fixed? Yes. Do they want Social Security and Medicare on a more solid footing? Absolutely. Will they pay for these things? Not a chance. There are no pragmatic, nonideological solutions to the big question of what the government should do and what...
Another challenge would be to ensure that the new alliance does not inflame the sectarian divide in the Islamic world, which could happen if it is seen as a Sunni cabal against the Shi'ites. But if the new Iraqi government (the only Shi'ite-led one besides Iran in the region) joined, the new alliance could show that it was willing to protect both moderate Shi'ites as well as Sunnis. The alliance would then be able to help take over from the U.S. some of the security responsibility in Iraq, and it could wean the Shi'ite leaders...
With a company so large, one or two spot-on guesses could quickly usher in a Gap metamorphosis. "If they hit a trend with innovation, Gap has a lot at their disposal," says David Sievers, a principal at Archstone Consulting. Of course, to make that happen, Gap needs to first find one thing: a CEO who really knows fashion. Fast...
...more pressing question for me is, What would happen if research like Roselli's did lead to, as the Sunday Times imagined, "a 'straightening' procedure [such as] a hormone supplement for mothers-to-be, worn like a nicotine patch"? I hope scientists have better things to do, but would a Hetero Patch be so awful? It would allow bigoted women to get what they want--straight kids--and ensure that gay kids grow up with moms who, at the very least, didn't try to prevent their existence. Gay people seem to fear we would die out if such...
Contra leaders fear that could happen, and quickly. Congress must certify that the first installment of the $100 million was properly spent before voting on the second in February. Says a contra official in Central America: "They could cut us off then, if the decks are still running with blood in Washington." U.S. allies in Honduras and El Salvador would be profoundly disappointed by any such move, if only because it would prove that there is no continuity to Washington's policy in the region. At a time when the U.S. is trying to repair its foreign policy, that...