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...didn't work. All the cheery T shirts in the world and the backing of Ireland's major political parties couldn't win the day. Irish voters were told that Lisbon would mean their sons would be conscripted into a European army, that abortion would be legalized and that there were plans to implant microchips in Irish children. Connellan met voters convinced that Brussels would impose a one-child policy. And more potent even than the scare stories, says Connellan, was the confusion. Irish voters - many of whom cheerfully professed to being staunchly pro-European - simply didn't know what...
...found Beinart's article informative and accurate but also ironic. He says liberals don't like symbolic patriotism, and yet much of the support for the liberal candidate, Barack Obama, is symbolic. They are concerned more with what his mere election would mean than with what he would or could accomplish as President. Rather than finding this inspiring, I feel it smacks of American narcissism and naiveté. For the country's sake, I hope people - and the press - will evaluate the candidates on their qualifications, not their pop-culture IQ. Carrie Wolfe, STERLING...
...quite-17-year-old daughter of a Republican father and a very left-wing Democratic mother, I feel that our unorthodox political arguments around the dinner table - in which I declare both parents absurd - have given me an unusual understanding of centrist politics. Compromise doesn't necessarily mean compromising one's personal values but rather accepting there is another point of view and sometimes adapting it. Maybe, just maybe, Obama is simply a reasonable guy able to change his opinions when the right rationale and information appeal to him. Isn't that a trait we should be looking...
...investment firms, the biggest prize lies in Saudi Arabia, whose women have an estimated $11 billion sitting in bank accounts. But the Kingdom's strict laws on gender segregation mean the obstacles are greater there, too. One wealth manager recalls sitting in a Saudi palace giving an investment seminar, all the while worrying about whether he'd be arrested by the mutawwa, or religious police, for being alone in a room with 40 women. Gulf conservatives may rail against women driving, showing their hair or voting, but opposition to women investors has been muted. "You don't see [extremists] worrying...
...comrades insist they haven't gone anywhere. "We're resting," he says with a smile. As if to ominously confirm Abbas' analysis, graffiti spotted around Baghdad in the past few months has warned, "We'll be back." But when? And if they're only resting, then does that mean the government has less control over the restless opposition hotbed than it has claimed? "The government is in full control of Sadr City," says the Interior Ministry official, who declined to be named because he is not authorized to speak to the press. "There are still a few [Mahdi Army fighters...