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...goals of the President. U.S. troops belong on U.S. soil, not stationed in 135 different countries. There is no justification for U.S. soldiers serving in other countries, unless our military is part of a U.N.-sponsored peacekeeping mission. Ted Johnson Colrain, Massachusetts, U.S. Where Was God? You omitted a profound side effect: the doubt that the tsunami [Jan. 10] has raised in the minds of millions of monotheists whose faith is based on a God who supposedly loves and cares for his creation and is responsive to prayers yet is either unwilling or unable to prevent natural disasters. Here...
...Carson was easy to imitate (by Rich Little in the 60s, Dana Carvey in the 90s, with Phil Hartman superb as Ed), difficult to know. As McMahon once said, in a remark I find both delphic and profound, John packs a tight suitcase. Even those closest to him had trouble figuring out if they had pleased him, and some of them suffered when, without realizing it, they fell short. He fired his brother Dick from directing the show (Dick then directed Merv Griffin's daytime schmoozathon). He summarily canned Art Stark, who had produced Who Do You Trust...
...These noble failures suggest that self-conscious attempts at creating community simply don't work. Our divisions are too profound. True expressions of our common humanity are more spontaneous, if infrequent. And they generally emerge in response to two kinds of phenomena: disaster and discovery...
...ready-or-not plunge into democracy: heady optimism on one street, jittery paranoia down another. In a country roiled by insurgency and sectarian tensions, occupied by a foreign army and populated by citizens largely unfamiliar with the democratic process, this is a time of profound uncertainty. The U.S. and the interim Iraqi government are hopeful that at least half the country's 15 million eligible voters will take part in the election, but no one can predict with any certainty what the turnout will be, especially among the disaffected Sunni population, who make up about 20% of the electorate...
Summers said he meant for his remarks to spark academic debate, noting that “there are deep and profound questions regarding the underrepresentation of women in science...