Word: knocks
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...Gerold Yonas, the chief scientist for SDI, was equally emphatic. ''The idea that we are going to protect all the people somehow with a perfect defense'' is the ''wrong approach.'' Instead, he argued, the goal is to make the Kremlin unsure that it could launch a strike that would knock out America's capacity to retaliate. The immediate goal of SDI, Perle agreed, is ''not the defense of the nation as a whole, not of every city and person in it, but the defense of America's capacity to retaliate.'' Thus he saw a more realistic mission for a space...
Comedy, good comedy, is not just unsafe; it's uncontrollable--satire most of all. Satire takes a real position and exaggerates it to the point of absurdity. By nature, it is, if it is any good, subject to interpretation. The knock on the New Yorker cover was like the old critique of Archie Bunker: that some idiot bigot somewhere might take it literally and enjoy...
...Meanwhile, political experts assured us that it was too early in the election cycle for much of this to matter. The public polls have been rather steady over the last month, with Obama maintaining a small, if slowly growing lead over McCain, which is far below the knock-out advantage that many had predicted in such a Democratic friendly cycle. Both campaigns long ago admitted that this campaign would come down to the economy, a growing problem for which neither candidate is offering many short-term fixes. Pew pollsters re-released data that showed that about twice as many Americans...
...faith in simple dreams, an insistence on small miracles. It's the idea that we can tuck in our children at night and know that they are fed and clothed and safe from harm; that we can say what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the door; that we can have an idea and start our own business without paying a bribe; that we can participate in the political process without fear of retribution; and that our votes will be counted...
...gearing up this year to target pro-choice women who fall outside of their universe of members and activists, a strategy they tested in the 2006 mid-term elections. "We identify the Republican women; we get out the information about candidates' positions," says Keenan. "We call them, we knock on doors, and once we've persuaded them, we get them to the polls." It worked in 2006, and this year she sees "enormous potential to move those women into the Obama column." But in order to do that, Keenan and her allies will have to find some way to drive...