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...engaging in responsible social behavior, Gross says. “We absolutely need to establish an alcohol program—the problem with alcohol here is gigantic,” he says. “It is illegal to drink here in Boston, but we can’t pretend that there won’t be alcohol at parties. When you go to UHS, the disaster has already happened. We need to do education and training...
What is one to make of all this? In one sense, nothing at all. As Ferguson has argued, the U.S. doesn't seem prepared to make the long-term commitment of resources and talent to its imperial possessions that, for better or worse, Britain did. But let's pretend the U.S. really is prepared to send its best and brightest to help rebuild Iraq. And let's concede, as Ferguson contends, that "liberal imperialism," with its free flow of capital and goods, really can help poor countries grow richer. Would the U.S. be wise to commit itself to such...
...both. What these books presume is that parenting is a science, when in fact it falls somewhere between an art and a combat zone. What they never take into account is the frazzled woman who is leading a double life--trying to be a good mother while having to pretend at work that she doesn't have kids at all. Here, for those heroically divided souls, I present the Mother's Alphabet...
...Still, the outlook is anything but certain, and things can go very badly awry. If much depends on Arab leadership, much also depends on American leadership. With hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops actually occupying an entire Arab country, it is hard for Washington to pretend that it does not have the power to influence decisive change elsewhere in the region. It will have to help foster democracy in Iraq and not embed American puppets in Baghdad. But it will also have to midwife a settlement in the Holy Land that is truly fair to Palestinians as well as Israelis...
...can’t pretend that the issues have simply gone away,” Kirby said...