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...there is a glaring exception. It's a basic presidential responsibility, but we sometimes overlook it or think of it as an economic or technical matter rather than a profound moral one. In three short years, this President has so ramped up government spending that he has turned a fiscal surplus into a huge and mounting debt. Far from taking responsibility for the nation's finances, the President has shirked basic housekeeping and foisted crippling debt on the next generation. If a President is in some sense the father of an extended family, Bush is fast becoming a deadbeat...
...were willing to overlook the 90° heat, the gridlocked traffic, the lack of water, the absence of cash, the 40-flight treks down office-building stairs, the day-old clothes wilting on your back and the food turning into inedible goo inside your refrigerator, the blackout was a lot of fun. Really...
...overlook the ecomonic issue. Good quality, highly nutritious food is available to those who can afford it. The less expensive, more convenient (and high-fat) fast-food options are the default choice for those who can't. Example: A 99-cent Whopper special can feed five children for $5. And it's quick. A carefully prepared low-fat meal, complete with fresh vegetables and quality protein, for the same five children could cost $25. Ann Yates Colorado...
...many decades ago. When you pick up a newspaper and begin to read a story with a dateline, think for a couple of seconds about the people like me who get excited by having earned a dateline. Consider what efforts went into getting the dateline. Don’t overlook this journalistic symbol entirely...
...illegal diamond trading. "They tend to strike fear into people's hearts," says Martin Rupiya, a senior researcher at the Institute for Security Studies, a South Africa-based think tank. "Whether that's a good thing or not depends on whose side they take." Liberians may be prepared to overlook such tactics as long as someone - anyone - turns up to help. In government-controlled Monrovia, civilians huddle against walls and run when they reach an exposed intersection. Food is running out. "We need ECOMOG , George Bush, anyone," says Favor Dennis, a vegetable seller. "We're dying." Liberians have even given...