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...It’s a great idea, but maybe they should have it earlier in the year when it is warmer. It is just so cold!” said Emily R. Kaplan...
...idea that a black man would within a few decades be elected president with strong white support would have seemed ludicrous to the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. just as much as to Malcolm X or George Wallace...
...example, let’s start with one of the more obvious inspirations: the Iraq War.McCain has made it clear to every Joe-the-Plumber that we will not be sissies in Iraq and won’t go home until we have achieved his vague idea of “victory.” This being so, we could anticipate this war to drag out even further if he won—years, not months. Maybe then our younger generations will take the place of the burnt out 60s hippies in truly protesting what’s going...
...violent,” Thomas A. Marks of the National Defense University said while discussing the difference between colonial violence and tribal conflict. “It’s not simply about escalation, but about the notion of citizenship,” Elkins responded. “The idea that there were good things that the British did and bad things the British did and that we add them up and decide whether it’s good or bad is silly. It’s about political identity.” But the panelists agreed...
...Farmer Airlines” decides to fly through a typhoon in an airplane piloted by a woman of dubious credentials in order to avoid a tongue-lashing by his boss. Even though he privately thinks his Editor-in-Chief’s orders are a “disastrous idea,” when other people voice this opinion, he speaks up in dishonest defense. Luckily he survives the ordeal. His photographer, however, does not. When the protagonist makes it back to the office, there’s no sympathy expressed for his predicament nor any sort of remorse...