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...thought about democracy: peace is the worst mess, except for the alternative. For all that, these four men reasserted the principle that leaders matter: that an individual's vision, courageously and persuasively and intelligently pursued, can override the rather unimaginative human preference for war. If strong, focused leadership had come from Europe or from Washington, might it have averted the Bosnian bloodbath? If Jean-Bertrand Aristide were a Mandela -- and if he had some equivalent of De Klerk as partner on the other side -- could Haiti have been saved? No one can quantify a negative, but it seems obvious that...
...tremendously flawed, top to bottom.For one, the deluge of ballot initiatives burns out and confuses voters. This will be the sixth referendum ballot in just over two years. With 10 long and complicated ballot measures thrown at me at a time, I have trouble sorting through the mess that is my sample ballot. So I usually look to the Los Angeles Times and state party endorsements and then decide based on little information in a rather arbitrary manner. And I’m certainly not alone; the typical Californian hasn’t the time to stay up on every...
When Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. accepted his nomination to the Supreme Court with President Bush standing over his shoulder like a proud father, Alito dropped an unsubtle hint that he will be tough to mess with. "I argued my first case before the Supreme Court in 1982, and I still vividly recall that day," said Alito, who was put on the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, in Philadelphia, by Bush's father. Underscore "first"; this is a lawyer who's been in the end zone before...
...understand what men say in the heat of battle because I spent a year in combat myself. But slowly American troops will weed out the enemy, and as its desperation grows, we will continue to stride ahead with confidence and assurance, knowing we will punish those who dared to mess with our country, an America we have sworn to protect. Albert Shepard, Sergeant, U.S. Army Camp Navistar, Kuwait...
...understand what men say in the heat of battle because I spent a year in combat myself. But slowly American troops will weed out the enemy, and as its desperation grows, we will continue to stride ahead with confidence and assurance, knowing we will punish those who dared to mess with our country, an America we have sworn to protect. Albert Shepard, Sergeant, U.S. Army Camp Navistar, Kuwait...