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...long as Palestinians grant a moral carte blanche to any terrorist merely because his barbarism puts them in a headline, there will be no peace in the region. Indeed, terrorism has only served to put Palestinians on our security radar screens, where peace, pragmatism, and compromise would have put them on the map. Hopefully new Palestinian leadership will accomplish the latter...
Luckily for us, when Obama wrote Dreams from My Father, his autobiography, nine years ago, his political radar was less refined. In Dreams, we are introduced to another, even more interesting Obama. Far from "wrapping himself in the American flag," as Walters and others have accused him of doing in his convention speech, this Obama railed against the suffocating strictures of race. At the élite Punahou prep school in Honolulu, he was one of only seven or eight black students. He found himself filled with a creeping rage for the assumptions his classmates made about him. At the same...
...youth to vote is so that politicians tailor their policies to youth, but those who would run the country should have the same interest states do in energizing the electorate. After a few exciting noises about higher education issues earlier in the campaign, youth issues drifted off the national radar screen entirely. If candidates talked more about the investments in the future that really matter to younger voters, they themselves would be investing in the strength of American democracy as it rolls on into the twenty-first century...
...armies line up to wait for their signal, a weary public watches the spectacle with a different emotion. If the pollsters are right, there is a mass of voters--off the media's radar because they seldom scream--who can live with either outcome but dread an Uncivil War. As the warnings of chaos grow more dire, they could be forgiven for caring less about who wins this election than about how he wins and when. A TIME poll finds that 48% of Americans believe that an illegitimate winner may prevail; 56% are ready to abolish the Electoral College...
Santiago, now 35, became interested in SM when she was 27. For three years, she kept her lifestyle under the radar. But in July of 2000, in the town of Addleboro, one disastrous night made her decide it was time to come...