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That's why the campaign pledges that Obama will resist the inevitable calls of the political class for more conflict and will engage in what his chief political strategist, David Axelrod, euphemistically calls the "vigorous comparative processes" on its own timetable and in its own way. "There is a bloodlust out there. People want us to eviscerate her, if for nothing else than the sport of it," says Axelrod. "But how we draw the distinction is important, and we're not going to get pushed into gratuitous exchanges to satisfy the peanut-gallery pundits...
...First created during the Mataram kingdom in the 17th century, batik has been historically appreciated throughout the Indonesian archipelago, but especially by the people of central and eastern Java, where the technique of wax-resist dyeing originated. In recent decades, though, batik has gone into crisis: handworked cloth simply cannot compete in price with mass-produced printed textiles. Changes in the manufacture of batik - with several assembly-line workers now robotically completing individual stages that were once handled by a single highly skilled artisan - have also diminished the cloth's allure. Government support has become essential to the industry...
Dick asked me out when we were both 16. I couldn't resist. He had a crew cut, and he was a football player. He didn't talk a lot, but when he did, everything he had to say was interesting. That was the beginning, and it's now 50 years later...
...wise. "I used to be in favor of allowing headscarves in universities," Ertugrul Ozkok, editor in chief of the influential Hurriyet daily wrote today. "But after the [July 22] elections I have my doubts. Can we be sure that women in Anatolian universities will be able to resist the social pressure to cover up?" The editor, whose newspaper has traditionally supported secularist laws, said he was worried about vigilantes singling out women who did not cover their hair...
...Government and took a lead role in creating one as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention. But in 1798, as a leader of the fight against the war measures of President John Adams, he became an advocate of states' rights, urging his native Virginia and its fellow states to resist "dangerous" exercises of federal power. In 1815, when Madison was President, he had to fend off a threat by New Englanders to wield the power of their states against his war measures, which they found "dangerous." Madison had a supple mind--supple enough to reconcile his shifting position, which...