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The intimate portrayal of our troops broke my heart. In the 1960s, Pete Seeger wrote, "Where have all the soldiers gone?" and lamented the government's choices: "When will they ever learn?" A lot has changed since Seeger wrote those words, and then again, nothing has changed. Tracy Leverton, Vienna...
GDP doesn't even consistently measure what actually gets done. Did you pay a cleaning company to clean your floors? Congratulations, you've added to this year's numbers. Did you scrub them yourself? Sorry, you haven't. Buying eggs from a factory farm: a GDP boost. Raising chickens in...
Members are not obliged to accept barter clients all the time. "There are times of the year when our hotel is full and we know we can generate cash payments," says Stephen Hill, the owner of the 24-bedroom Hotel Penzance in Cornwall, southwest England. "There are other times when...
This inexorable ambiguity permeates all facets of what constitutes a hate crime, including the highly questionable notion that the repugnance of a crime escalates due to the intangible, unquantifiable impact that it has upon those to whom the perpetrator did nothing. Proponents of hate-crimes legislation posit that crimes committed...
Ultimately, though, the evening served less as a talking shop and more as a call to action. The three actors were adamant that hands-on experience is necessary for anyone who wishes to understand the problems faced by young, vulnerable people in cities today. For them, this is nothing less...