Word: resurrects
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Managing Editor Richard Stengel is right: Americans are hungry to be asked to do something [Sept. 10]. During World War II, we all were asked to do something, and we did. Back then, we were joined in a common cause. Today there is a void. We need to resurrect a sense of obligation to our country besides taxes and voting. One way to help accomplish this would be to institute a draft. Everyone should be obligated to serve the country in some fashion. Maybe then we would stop identifying ourselves with narrow labels such as liberal, conservative, Democrat and Republican...
...graduates, the military says, make better soldiers than dropouts. The CBO, which does not make recommendations but only charts options for lawmakers, estimates that somewhere between 27,000 and 165,000 would be drafted each year. That relatively small slice - some 2 million males turn 18 each year - could resurrect the problems seen in the Vietnam era when deferments and friendly draft boards kept some well-connected young men out of uniform. Under current law, women could not be drafted...
...Even as McCain vowed to return to "the part of campaigning that I love the most"-reconnecting with voters face to face-his own face and demeanor showed the strain of trying to resurrect his campaign and his hopes. But he warmed noticeably as he engaged in a question and answer session with the crowd of 130 who attended the Chamber of Commerce lunch, stopping only when longtime aide and consigliere Mark Salter, standing at the back of the room, began gesturing at his wristwatch...
...legislation Bush has a chance of passing as he approaches the lame-duck period of his Presidency. A majority of Republicans voted to halt debate on the bill last Thursday, sparking headlines that the legislation was dead. This week Bush and the 12 negotiators have worked hard to resurrect it, agreeing on lists of Republican and Democratic amendments they would allow to be voted on and tentatively scheduling floor time either concurrent to the energy debate now before the Senate or after it wraps next week...
...ideal and the means, subserving, like our culture itself, change within commitment.” FAS ignores this credo today, hemming students into low-risk, safety courses—or else leaving us to risk squandering all chance of a good grad school. Only a decisive policy change can resurrect Harvard’s commitment to the pursuit of real scholarship...