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...Hillary is not without her bad history. When Obama and Edwards were two lawyers, years away from entering public life, Hillary was making a mess of revolutionizing the country’s medical system, a worthy project that was politically botched. Had she not demonstrated again and again since that time that she has learned from these and other mistakes we would not be writing this editorial...
...Though Strauss eventually secured $130,000 in grants from the Carnegie and Ford Foundations for the project, the early days of the project were less financially stable. On one occasion, he and his friends had to convince a bus driver to let them on board by offering postage stamps as currency...
...least two imperial premises: first, that American lives and interests matter more than Iraqi ones, and second, that American foreign policy is generally benevolent. What opposition to the invasion of Iraq needs is a reappraisal of its relationship to Empire; unless it rejects explicitly the premises of that project, it will only help reproduce the tragedies that it purports to oppose...
...Nationalism of this sort, of course, is foundational to any imperial project, insofar as Empire presumes the moral correctness of its expansive reach. And in its quest for ‘consensus’ (or better polling figures, as today’s tired political climate would have it), it only requires that not too many Americans disagree that their government’s foreign policy be directed by a mandate to secure hegemony. In everyday rhetoric, including—tellingly—among today’s Democratic presidential hopefuls, this often translates into a pledge to protect national...
...like Pakistan's tourism ministry hasn't been trying. The survey I was filling out is part of a two-year-long project that will wrap up this year. Pakistan has a great tourism website. And the country even decided to make last year "Destination Pakistan 2007." But there's the rub. Last year was one of the most troubled in Pakistan's history. Terrorist attacks became a weekly, sometimes daily, occurrence. President Pervez Musharraf threw out the Supreme Court Chief Justice triggering massive street protests. The Swat Valley, a picturesque tourist spot renowned for its skiing and trout fishing...