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...people communicated. Rather, one liners, stories and yelling made up the verbal interaction, and high-fives and back-patting on a scale I had not seen since Little League were added at appropriate times. While there is nothing wrong with any of these things--I do not pretend to be anti-high-five-ing--it was so linked with the way the operation ran that I did not see how you could fit in acting differently. But while that clearly made for a situation where a women might feel uncomfortable, it was the dialogue that took place that was appalling...
...suspicious of simple answers, so I am conscious of the many simplifications that my arguments contain. But although I do not pretend to understand entirely the complicated motives of Ronald Reagan and George Bush, I find it extremely hard to believe that either president acted out of some idealistic desire to protect basic human rights and democracy in Panama or Kuwait. The motives behind their actions seem almost transparent, and it is tempting to label them nothing but materialistic...
Whether or not Vietnam was a just was is a question that I cannot pretend to answer. The history behind Vietnam is terribly complex and almost impossible to unravel even in hindsight. The men that fought and died in Vietnam should be honored to the fullest extent possible. America called them to serve, and they went. But, for all the pain and suffering that it caused so many people across the world, Vietnam is done. For all it was and was not worth, Vietnam is done, and policy makers of today can not let the shadows of the past control...
...billion a year in tourist revenue. Not-for-profit arts, local and national, support 1.3 million jobs, yield $37 billion a year in economic activity and return $3.4 billion a year to the federal treasury through tax--some 20 times the budget of the nea. It is ludicrous to pretend that the NEA is a drain on the American purse...
...engage in a roller-coaster ride toward parenthood with unlikely friends Marty and Gail, already have three children and try to convince Samuel of the joys of parenting even as their kids run away, pretend they are Harlequin Romance heroines and generally torment everybody they come into contact with...