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...military overthrow of Mugabe. Many of them are neoconservatives motivated largely by the desire to ridicule multilateralism and resuscitate the so-called Bush Doctrine. Such voices conveniently forget that the Bush Doctrine has never actually been tried in practice. The war in Iraq was fought over alleged weapons of mass destruction, a contrived link to 9/11, oil, a father's unfinished legacy--but not as a humanitarian intervention...
Douglas Kmiec is the kind of Catholic voter the G.O.P. usually doesn't have to think twice about. The Pepperdine law professor and former Reagan Justice Department lawyer (Samuel Alito was an office mate) attends Mass each morning. He has actively opposed abortion for most of his adult life, working with crisis pregnancy centers to persuade women not to undergo the procedure. He is a member of the conservative Federalist Society and occasionally sends a contribution to Focus on the Family...
...Tsvangirai to withdraw last Sunday makes Mugabe's victory inevitable. In Zimbabwe, presidential terms last six years, so by the time he faces reelection again, Mugabe will be 90 and will have ruled his country for 34 years. Nevertheless, expectations are that after six more years of hyper-inflation, mass unemployment and brutal repression, the President will be in better shape than his country...
What should be done about the fact that American children lag behind kids in other countries in science and math? Francis Harrington MARLBOROUGH, MASS...
...life thereafter, one of Fuller's abiding preoccupations was how to mass-produce housing the way Ford made cars. He came up with the fully portable Dymaxion House, a metal dwelling suspended by cables from a central mast that held all the plumbing and wiring. He also produced a three-wheel Dymaxion Vehicle--the Whitney has borrowed the last surviving one--and even a Dymaxion Bathroom, which could be manufactured and shipped as a single modular unit. None of those worked out as manufacturing ideas in his lifetime, but they left behind proposals, plausible ones, for the future to work...