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...quilting stitching techniques that she learned growing up in the Appalachian foothills of northern Alabama. Individual style soon turned into a high-demand fashion business. She eventually created a line of dresses, skirts, jackets and T shirts, but she couldn't find anyone in New York to hand render her designs. So she went home to Florence, Ala., a small town that was struggling because of the exodus of textile-industry jobs. There she found a generation that had grown up learning to quilt...
...retirement benefits to gender because women live longer than men, or might let blue-collar workers retire earlier because "there are certain occupations in which you're pretty used up by 65." He rounded out his comments by declaring that the politics of the House and Senate would soon render the President's plan a "dead horse" even before Bush announces its details...
However while indiscriminate terror is not a recipe for long-term success in governing a country, if carried out viciously enough it most certainly can derail a democratic election. The ability of the insurgents to stir up enough violence to either delay or render useless the upcoming election is the most immediate and serious threat we face. Whether you supported the war or not it seems clear that the best outcome now is for a democratically governed Iraq, and the next several weeks will determine whether or not this is a possibility...
...large, and academics in particular, must respect the bounds of academic discourse—at least when the discourse is either grounded in fact to the extent possible or self-consciously speculative. When any scholar presents a legitimate academic theory, with the hope that evidence will eventually emerge to render a verdict on the theory’s validity, the theory must be debated on academic grounds...
...delay at the behest of the Sunni minority they plan to displace in the corridors of power. And while the Sunni insurgents have the capacity for violent disruption, the Shiite clerical leadership has previously demonstrated the sort of mass urban support that, if called onto the streets, could render the U.S.-authored transition untenable...