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...Bush's Administration turned out to be inept at both the military part and the utopian part: it failed at the strategy and logistics of the Iraq war and flirted disastrously with the idea that terrorist groups like Hizballah and Hamas are simply good citizens waiting to happen...
...million, but corporate America's impatience with the back-breaking financial burden of providing health insurance for its employees. Health care adds $1,500 to the price of every new American car, for instance. "I've had auto executives say to me, ?We're health-care companies that happen to make cars,'" says Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon. As it happens, Wyden has put an elegant and entirely radical health-care plan on the table. According to an independent assessment by the Lewin Group, a nonpartisan health-care consulting firm, it would save $1.48 trillion over the next 10 years...
...didn’t really reflect the atmosphere of the team this year,” varsity stroke George Kitovitz said. “It’s been such a great season, and we’ve got so many great guys, it just didn’t happen...
...They did what we asked them to do, and we won the war. Then they cleaned it up, under budget, ahead of schedule, and today it's a wildlife preserve," he said. "Now we sit here trying to find ways to say 'Bad things happen to good people...
...Toward the end of our lunch, I asked Shultz, now 86, what lessons the world can draw from the Reagan speech at a time when the U.S. and its allies are struggling to contain the new threat of militant Islam. "President Reagan had the idea that change could happen," Shultz says. "That put him at odds with establishment thinking, which had embraced détente and assumed change would not happen. To them, you had two systems that would go on forever; peaceful coexistence was the objective. Reagan assumed change was possible and I thought so too. Your mindset makes...