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...foolish for their families to expect that they are going to be safe. When even journalists and humanitarian relief workers are targets of violence in Iraq, why should these armed men be exempt? Their deaths highlight the ineptitude of the government that got us into this mess. Farhad Sethna, AKRON, OHIO...
...Another is the growing realization that money talks—in all languages. Private foundations can often avoid the bureaucratic mess that plagues public funds, and more effectively stomp out developing world maladies. Even NGOs extol the virtue of profit through microfinance. Social enterprises ensure that each dollar of goodwill can go further. For do-gooders and techies alike, entrepreneurship is almost a religious calling...
...unstable songs to the brim with a cacophony of boisterous horns, disco bass lines, and supercharged snare hits. If 2004’s “Good News for People Who Love Bad News” proved anything, it was that Brock had enough genius to turn a shambling mess into a successful pop album. The lonely twang of early Modest Mouse songs may have been traded in for a gigantic layer of schmaltz and glittery hooks, but the band’s even more fatalistic than ever. Brock has described the album as a “nautical balalaika...
...special is an interesting test of the real power of Idol--to see if viewers love it enough to vote with their wallets as well as their cell phones. But it's a risk too, to mess with the formula, possibly endanger the brand. Idol's virtues as TV are its simplicity and its almost hermetically sealed environment. When you watch Idol, there's no world outside Idol; it makes for more drama that way. So why break the spell by introducing the complicated problems of the outside world...
...political brinksmanship being played by Congressional leadership and the President is a dangerous one; the lives of American soldiers hang in the balance. Though the pressure of the 2008 elections is looming on every politician’s radar screen, the only way we will extricate ourselves from this mess is if both Congress and Bush stop their game of veiled threats and casting aspersions. Bush should change his policy; the Democrats should cut out the timetable. Furthermore, the Democrats’ spending bill is chock full of pork spending utterly unrelated to the situation in Iraq?...