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...movies are antiwar movies in that they describe horrible incidents and the most profound thing of all, to lose a young person. But I was more interested in examining the idea, from Heart of Darkness, that society could send people in to kill on behalf of some moral ideal...
...Clinton's success out of their craw. They persist in seeing "triangulation"-which was the consultant Dick Morris' odious term for Third Way liberalism-as a mere political strategy rather than a governing philosophy. It was a bit of each, of course. But the philosophy was both successful and profound. It proposed the achievement of liberal ends through market-oriented conservative means. Welfare reform, which combined a work requirement with significant financial incentives for the working poor, was the best example of how the philosophy might work. Unfortunately, Monica Lewinsky's thong show prevented further successes-and Al Gore...
...agreement to allow for the deployment of an international force to police such a truce, the U.S. is insisting that there be no demand for a halt to Israel's offensive until a mechanism is in place to disarm Hizballah. These differences are not diplomatic hair-splitting - they reflect profound differences over the fate of Hizballah. The only acceptable outcome for the U.S. is a defeat for Hizballah, because if the movement survives the onslaught with its independent military capability intact, it will be seen throughout the Arab world as the victors...
...human being could do with minimal effort. It was a humbling lesson that took some time to fully comprehend, a lesson I still haven’t managed to work into my daily life no matter how hard I’ve tried, a lesson in moral reasoning more profound than anything else I have learned in my two years at Harvard. “I’m a journalist,” I told Marty as an idea shot through my head, “I’ll write about...
...whether to raise its overnight lending rate to 0.25% or leave it at zero, where it has been for more than five years. That shift would not just demonstrate that the BOJ believes the world's second largest economy is now on sound footing?it would also have a profound effect on global markets and both corporate and private borrowers...