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However, this is not the first time America and the world has faced this dismal situation. Lyndon Johnson’s pursuit of the Vietnam War and the election of Nixon created a similar situation. What is needed from American students now is something similar to what the students did then. That is, to organize themselves across America and, without succumbing to the extreme radicalism that marked that era, take action to do the good things that the Bushites will not do, such as: reversing the despoilment of the environment, ensuring that large corporations, in particular drug companies...
...truth is that corporate America has more than its fair share of management failures, setting aside cases of fraud or accounting shenanigans. In fact, despite the unique circumstances in different industries, companies tend to stumble for the same insidious reasons--reasons that often flow from the egoistic pursuit of scale or an unwillingness to face up to the changing market...
...world: Paul Bowles in Morocco, Christopher Isherwood in California, Maugham in the south of France. Donald Richie in Asia goes even further in arguing that expatriation is not just an escape, "it is an embracing, a reaching out, a moving into as well as a moving away from." The pursuit of that embrace is what has made Richie modern Asia's most enduring and humane elegist...
...Historical Study B-61, “The Warren Court and the Pursuit of Justice, 1953–1969,” Warren Professor of American Legal History at Harvard Law School Morton J. Horwitz opened his class yesterday with a discussion of how Bush’s re-election would affect the Supreme Court, particularly Justice appointments and interpretations of cases such as Roe v. Wade...
...flimsy quality of America’s plan for peace. We hope that whoever wins the presidential election tomorrow will present the American people with an actual plan, instead of a list of talking points. We believe that $70 billion can be justified—but only in pursuit of a careful, deliberate, and thoughtful strategy for success...