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...bestir themselves, flip on CNN, and catch up on all the politics they have missed during our comfortable, decade-long Gilded Age. More likely, a sudden and artificially induced increase in voter turnout would only mean an increase in the number of ill-informed, poorly thought out and just plain stupid votes. To be blunt, most of the people who don't vote, shouldn't vote...
...Harvard attorney Ryan said the letter's intended meaning was plain...
...sure, there are many loose ends and unexplained factors in Lee's case, such as the fate of the seven missing tapes and his motivations for allegedly refusing to cooperate with investigators last year. But it's also plain, now, that the pursuit of Lee, which began in a climate of political hysteria over allegations of Chinese nuclear espionage, has been an embarrassing failure for a government that appears to have been forced to accept a plea agreement to avoid further humiliation. After all, the deal came days before the deadline on which the government would have been forced...
...American G.I., peacekeeping's paradox is plain. Shooting to kill--something a soldier has practiced since basic training--is the best thing he can do in combat. But it's the worst thing he can do on a peacekeeping mission because an itchy trigger finger can spark civilian casualties, renewed warfare and national embarrassment. Since the cold war, which Russian and U.S. troops spent pacing in their garrisons awaiting World War III, military prowess has become a more subtle discipline. But subtlety has never been the U.S. military's strong suit, and no other modern military mission is as vexing...
...someone who wants the G.O.P. to be inclusive of minorities, Bush seems blind to how racism, class and privilege are entrenched in American culture and institutions. SHEA JUSTICE Jamaica Plain, Mass...