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...Pariser and the MoveOniks can't seem to get Bill Clinton's success out of their craw. They persist in seeing "triangulation"-which was the consultant Dick Morris' odious term for Third Way liberalism-as a mere political strategy rather than a governing philosophy. It was a bit of each, of course. But the philosophy was both successful and profound. It proposed the achievement of liberal ends through market-oriented conservative means. Welfare reform, which combined a work requirement with significant financial incentives for the working poor, was the best example of how the philosophy might work. Unfortunately, Monica Lewinsky...
...With no sign yet of the engine coming to life, Schneider decides to hitch a 30-km ride to Balladonia, where he'll phone for help. "Get me a sausage roll or something, mate," Bryson calls from the truck, soon to be a mere speck in the landscape...
...gentleman, the term doesn't do justice to the quiet watchfulness of his profession. But a dogger he is and his frontier is the dingo fence-not the 5,400-km great wall of wire that runs from the Great Australian Bight to Queensland's Bunya Mountains, but a mere 500-km stretch bordering one of the Nullarbor's largest sheep stations, near Cocklebiddy. His painstaking task is to patrol and repair its parameter of chicken wire, laying dog baits as he goes. Little escapes his eagle eye: the other week, marauding camels charged through the fence in two places...
...neighborhood in the past few days, all of them his fellow Shi'ites. The bodies were decapitated, the heads never found. He tells me how, since a suicide bombing in a nearby neighborhood, his wife has been suffering anxiety attacks when she goes shopping. I feel ashamed that a mere hour's worth of Baghdad's reality has brought me down; Wisam and his family live it all the time...
...propensity to date sparingly and marry older, I was floored to discover, while catching up on hometown gossip, that many of the people I had gone to high school with were planning to get married in the next few years. Their high school relationships, which I previously viewed as mere juvenile affairs, had become more than that—they were the beginnings of their future...