Word: homely
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...wept uncontrollably at Mr. Serwer's lament about the U.S.'s dismal decade. The hopeful last paragraph raised my spirits, however, knowing that with so many trump cards on its side, the home of the brave and the land of the free will rise again to plunder the planet for generations to come. Robert Leckie Mount Helena, Australia...
MARCH 16 "THE HEALTH CARE CRISIS HITS HOME...
Adam Ferguson's photography from Afghanistan brought it all back home. Medevacs, sentries monitoring the perimeter, soldiers shaving with whatever was available--Vietnam all over again. I hope our nation's decision makers review his work...
...more often on this page than the conflicts raging in the volatile crescent from Iraq and Iran to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Second place went to our sour economy's ups and downs--the job losses and con artists, the green shoots and Black Fridays. Struggle abroad and struggle at home: surely those were defining glimpses of this Moment in our history...
While General Stanley McChrystal drew praise for recalibrating U.S. military strategy in Afghanistan, the cost of the conflict kept being hammered home. In October, 58 U.S. soldiers were killed, the highest monthly tally since the war began in 2001. President Obama's plan to commit 30,000 more troops before beginning a drawdown in July 2011 led critics to question the logic of fighting a war that cannot, perhaps, be cleanly...