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...Klein said, democracy "demands that people take charge of their lives and make informed decisions." I hope Americans make informed decisions in the next elections and hold our public officials accountable for what they say. We need to repair our image as a superpower and calm the global hornet's nest this Administration and congressional leadership have stirred up. Richard Zack New Providence, New Jersey, U.S. Give Women a Hand "Why Merkel is not enough" [jan. 30] reported on the difficulties that German women face when they try to combine career and family. We want our women to take part...
...Klein said, democracy "demands that people take charge of their lives and make informed decisions." I hope Americans make informed decisions in the next elections and hold our public officials accountable for what they say. We need to repair our image as a superpower and calm the global hornet's nest this Administration and congressional leadership have stirred up. Richard Zack New Providence, New Jersey...
Marine Lt. Ed Cunningham's warning was spot-on: "It will be like flying into a hornet's nest." As he and Capt. Bryan Willard piloted their large, CH-53 helicopter closer to New Orleans on Saturday, the sky was frenetically dotted with all types and sizes of choppers, bobbing and weaving like bumblebees in a barely controlled chaos amidst the smoke of fires burning along the Mississippi River below. They searched for Hurricane Katrina survivors in large venues like the Convention Center-where a lone military air traffic controller with the call sign "Superman 00" somehow directed the evacuation...
...wants to return to a quieter time. McLennan County Commissioner Ray Meadows, who told TIME he was "mad as a hornet" when he first saw cars and tents spilling over the ditches on Prairie Chapel Road in what was to become Camp Casey, has called on his fellow commissioners to limit traffic and activity on seven miles of road around the Western White House...
...sources say, was stunned by the June 30 Congressional resolution objecting to the merger. So was the Chinese government. One of Fu's advisers says Beijing, already sparring with Washington over the value of China's currency and U.S. quotas on Chinese-made textile imports, was not expecting a hornet's nest to be stirred...