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...needs to have a sense of what is right and what is wrong. Because Suharto did both good and evil, that distinction has been blurred. His regime is full of buts: yes, there was corruption and abuse of power, but the economy grew - that sort of thing. As a result, Indonesia lacks self-confidence and self-respect. That, more than anything else, is the legacy left by Suharto...
...cover story, "The Case for National Service," argued that public service should become a universal rite of passage for young Americans. Since then, Senator Obama has made national service part of his platform, while Senator Clinton has pledged to double the educational stipends for AmeriCorps volunteers. As a direct result of the interest in that cover story, we are planning to sponsor a summit meeting on national service in the fall...
...April 17, 2006, cover story, "Dropout Nation," helped spark a national discussion of one of America's most pressing educational problems: the more than 1 million students who give up on high school each year. As a result of that story, we became part of the anti-dropout coalition led by Colin Powell's nonprofit, America's Promise Alliance, which is launching 100 summits in 50 states to tackle this problem...
...year and 937 U.S. fatalities later, the surge is a fragile and limited success, an operation that has helped stabilize the capital and its surroundings but has yet to spark the political gains that could set the stage for a larger American withdrawal. As a result of improving security in Iraq, the war no longer is the most pressing issue in the presidential campaign, having been supplanted by the faltering U.S. economy. Voters still oppose the war by nearly 2 to 1, but Democrats sense the issue could be less galvanizing as troops begin to return home. Republicans who supported...
...Delegate Hunt An unprecedented number of Americans will vote in primaries and caucuses on Feb. 5, a result of states elbowing ahead on the electoral calendar. While both parties have varying rules for allocating delegates, the sheer number of contests forces candidates to target just a handful of key states...