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...only regret is that Miller refused to take any stance on the profound questions that his performance provoked. “I don’t want to be heavy-handed and say ‘this is good,’ ‘this is bad,’” Miller told an audience of a dozen or so students and community members in the basement of the Carpenter Center Saturday morning after the performance. “It’s a blur...
...election has certainly united against the Dems against Bush on some issues, but it has also raised profound questions about their party's direction. Worried that the Democrats are losing ground by appearing to simply say "no, no, no" to President Bush's agenda rather than offering their own, Democratic strategists James Carville and Stan Greenberg are suggesting that the party should offer an alternative vision on Social Security to Bush's private accounts. Republicans were thrilled with the Greenberg-Carville memo, which they think perfectly illustrated their critique of the Democrats: "Even their own trusted consultants Greenberg and Carville...
...going through a very intense period in the American university today. It is in many ways more profound and revolutionary than the campus upheavals of the 1960s. It may not be as noticeable to the outside world because there has been less resistance. But without such resistance, it is as if the foundations are collapsing...
...eight years ago, precisely the same could have been said of Tung. The central truth about Hong Kong is that it has long ceased being a society that cares about nothing but business and stability. Do Tsang, Hu, and Wen understand that? And?a harder question, with more profound consequences for Hong Kong?if they do, is Beijing prepared to tolerate...
...democratic process above its outcome, as the Bush administration has done thus far in Iraq. If Washington accepts that given the choice, Arab electorates will most likely choose candidates quite different from those the U.S. would prefer to see in power, we could be in for a profound change in the region's prospects. But that requires dispensing with the Cold War mentality that puts the outcome above the process, i.e. better a pro-U.S. autocrat than a democratically elected socialist (or, these days, Islamist). Henry Kissinger once justified U.S. support for the Pinochet coup in Chile by saying...