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...resort to demagoguery whenever plausible. Sorry, guys, you lost me there. George W. Bush has proven that governing from the right can't work; but governing from the left won't work either. The only way that real change - a universal health-care system (along the lines enacted by Mitt Romney in Massachusetts), a real alternative energy plan, progressivity in taxation and entitlement reform, a cooperative non-toxic foreign policy-will come is through coalitions built from the center out. And those coalitions will only flourish in a public atmosphere of civility, humanity and compromise...
...dispute. Some time between 1 a.m. and 3 a.m. on April 17 a well-known Iraqi army checkpoint at a prominent Adhamiya intersection came under intense fire from insurgent forces in the town. Other Iraqi units responded and a blazing battle ensued. American advisors from a Military Transition Team (MiTT) with the 101st Airborne, embedded within the battalion under attack, were called out and were soon fighting for their lives. A coalition quick-reaction force was summoned...
...Though the severity of the battle was played down by official U.S. military spokesmen, officers on the ground tell a different story. "It lasted for about seven hours after we arrived, so the enemy was pretty determined. They did not just fade away," says the MiTT team chief Major Chuck Markos, whose men were hit with flurries of rocket propelled grenades and small arms fire. "It was significant." The exchanges lasted until shortly before lunch. By mid-day, the district was boarded up, bereft of traffic or life, but quiet. The next morning at about 6 a.m., hostilities started again...
...resumed the next morning that's what he did. "We heard they were coming," he says of the Iraqi troops, "so we took our positions and started shooting at them from near the mosque. We used PKC [machine guns], RPGs, grenades, everything." The men of the 101st Airborne's MiTT have no reason to doubt him. A U.S. soldier told TIME days later of how RPG rounds had whizzed past his humvee, with one sliding right under...
...largest state effort to regulate carbon emissions thus far is the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), comprised of eight Northeastern states who agreed to stabilize emissions at current levels by 2015 and reduce them by 10 percent by 2020. Massachusetts was set to join RGGI in 2005, but Gov. Mitt W. Romney pulled the Commonwealth from the pact late last year. Browner said several times that she favors a “cap-and-trade” proposal like RGGI under which each industrial facility would be allocated a certain number of “emission credits...