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...fiscal responsibility into existing social programs. It should not immediately bridle at calls to reassess existing entitlement funding, as the Kennedy wing has so often done. An initiative to ease the looming crisis over Social Security—where the Republicans have abdicated all responsibility, resorting instead to mere sloganeering—would be particularly welcome. The Democratic Party remains the best hope for those who long for an America that tends to its needy and that does not subordinate social progress to militarism or deceptively aristocratic economic policies. Kennedy’s withdrawal should allow the party?...
...critical sense, we academicians know these men as psychopaths, and perhaps they are. They believe in sensuality, not sense; in thrill, not mere experience. Beauty is physical, and they think the world owes them a living—a free beer, a pat on the back, easy sex, and a wad of twenty-dollar bills. Responsibility has too many syllables and love is a dirty word. Ginsberg makes a disappointing Rimbaud...
...sponsored mass murder persists in Darfur. Meanwhile, UBS, the Swiss financial services giant, facilitated PetroChina’s rise by hosting its Shanghai IPO—without considering the bargaining power it held to enact change in one of the world’s most neglected, most devastated quadrants. Mere greed seems to have...
...said he became “very keen” on not asking people what they wanted. Students’ specific requests regarding housing conditions often generate quick cures that last a mere three years, Fox said recently...
After 26 debates, 48 states and a mere $435 million raised between them, is the end of Clinton vs. Obama upon...