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Maybe there will come a day, as yet far off, when our skills and science overmaster chaos and the last surprise flashover consumes its last unlucky victim. Until then, we will have need for those willing to place themselves in the gap between knowledge and peril: the firefighter at the blaze, the police officer in pursuit, the soldier approaching an ambush, the fisherman nearing a gale. Though their perception may prove imperfect, their courage is never obsolete...
Like a lot of Administration supporters, Kagan sees both promise and peril in the coming months. He does not expect much clarity in the military situation by September, the date members of both parties increasingly cite as a make-or-break moment of the Administration in Iraq. Last week, hoping to quell expectations, White House officials sought to play down the significance of the September checkpoint, and Kagan echoed those cautionary words...
...help Mexico create more jobs that pay better. A recent Council on Foreign Relations study found that when Mexican wages drop 10% relative to U.S. wages, attempts to cross the border illegally rise 6%. As complex and corrupt as the Mexican economy is, we ignore it at our peril...
...commercials anymore, but those saccharine eHarmony ads featuring Natalie Cole tra-la-laing the blight-on-humanity song "This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)" have been unavoidable the last couple of years. (At your peril, you can check one out here...
...Merrick Bobb agrees. "He's at the helm of a behemoth that for many years was headed in the wrong direction," Bobb says. "Bratton is the first police chief with both the will and the capacity to turn the ship in the right direction. His reappointment isn't in peril in the least. That said, the MacArthur Park incident underscores how much of a challenge he has ahead...