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Edwards knew exactly how to react; his campaign had an e-mail out in no time encouraging people to…donate money to him (surprise!): “If we can raise $100,000 in ‘Coulter Cash’ this week, we can show that bigotry will only backfire on those who use it.” The e-mail is nothing short of farcical, and, in that respect, is precisely what the doctor ordered. How else do you retain your dignity while stooping to acknowledge the content of a speech by Coulter...
...street. Virgin Galactic must find out before blast-off how people in their 50s, 60s and 70s - those most able to afford it - can cope with the stress of space travel. "To be commercial viable and safe, we need data on the way people react to g forces and the psychological experience of going into space. We don't know that yet," says Alex Tai, Galactic's chief of operations - and the man who will pilot first Virgin's first spaceship. One possibility is a ride in a centrifuge to see how passengers will react to the g forces...
...might the Justices react to claims that the courts get aced out because the Iraq war is an international enterprise? With Omar's and Munaf's cases probably headed for the high court, you can bet we'll find out soon. Keep in mind too that the Administration has more at stake here than its power. By steering these types of cases to Iraqi courts, it can help those courts gain legitimacy. The stronger its judiciary, the better Iraq's chances of surviving as a nation and the sooner the U.S.--to mix slogans from two unpopular wars--can stand...
...proud that it took the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and a German declaration of war against the U.S., for us finally to enter the war against Hitler? Then, even with the lessons of Munich fresh in mind, we were slower than we might have been to react to Stalin's aggression in Central and Eastern Europe. We foolishly (if inadvertently) suggested early in 1950 that we might not take action to protect South Korea, inviting aggression from the North. We pursued a policy of gradual escalation in Vietnam. Still, our performance during the cold war was, on the whole...
...You’re talking about people who often have a personality that resists authority and that resists or reacts to reputation and conventional ways of thinking and they want to be outside the box,” he says. “Harvard can look to be like a box, but even that is something that we have to offer. So they come here and they react against something...