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Well, I think a new President comes in??and wants to fix the problems--whatever the problems are. And if you look back at the first year of most Presidents, they take steps and operate under the thesis that maybe I've got to inflict a little pain, but I'll do it in the first year so that by the fourth year they won't remember. That's been the story of politics in this country for a long time...
...Rowling had outed Dumbledore in??the books, she would have denied millions of children a tremendous reading experience because homophobic parents would not have let their children read the books. But this way, Rowling has infiltrated plenty of homophobe domiciles. There is far greater benefit to the understanding of gays when there is dialogue...
John Le Carre's novels, in??which secret agents confound one another with twisted espionage games, may have taken inspiration from legendary, real-life Soviet master-spy Alexander Feklisov, the cold-war operative who ran some of the KGB's deadliest spies in the West. Feklisov's recruits included Julius Rosenberg, widely believed to have provided information on the Manhattan Project, and German scientist Klaus Fuchs, who had worked at the Los Alamos lab. Feklisov was pivotal in his country's acquisition of the nuclear bomb, first exploded in 1949, some five years before U.S. agents expected...
Like one of the students featured in??the article, I was taking Algebra II when I was 11 or 12. My mother pushed school administrators to allow me to do so. I had encountered resistance from a couple of teachers, and their lack of understanding caused some problems. It certainly caused me to abandon math and science. I became a lawyer instead...
When the ballots were finally counted in??the Iowa straw poll on the evening of Aug. 11, former Governor Mitt Romney was the winner, with 31.5% of the vote. But it was Mike Huckabee, the laid-back former Governor of Arkansas, who bounded into the press tent ahead of the others to exult in his second-place finish. Romney's win was preordained--he spent a reported $2 million on the event and has led in Iowa polls since mid-May. But Huckabee, who has raised only $1.3 million all year and spent less than $150,000 on the straw...