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Burke. Buckley. Limbaugh? Modern conservatism has decayed from the positive, pragmatic force its founders envisioned into a bitter resistance movement that's given up on fresh ideas, argues Sam Tanenhaus, editor of the New York Times Book Review. While Richard Nixon backed national health insurance and Ronald Reagan tempered his muscular rhetoric with political flexibility, today's dominant conservatives are little more than "inverse Marxists," clenching an outdated dogma that would sooner see government destroyed than saved. The result is a shrinking movement inhabiting a "fringe orbit" irrelevant to the needs of today's America, an intellectual flatlining confirmed...
...dozen law enforcement and conflict resolution experts have been appointed to the Cambridge Review Committee tasked with analyzing the controversial July arrest of black Harvard professor Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr., Cambridge officials announced last Thursday. The group’s members hail from across the country and include the dean of the Rutgers School of Law, the Philadelphia Police Commissioner, a United States District Court judge, a former FBI assistant director, and a U.S. State Department senior advisor who worked on Arab-Israeli negotiations. “This is a historic opportunity...
...some outside players remain stuck in the same old ruts. A SADC summit this month in Kinshasa somehow contrived to remove Zimbabwe - the most pressing issue facing the region - from its agenda, resolving merely that a committee of three SADC members would "review" progress on power-sharing between Mugabe and Tsvangirai. Mugabe himself continues to delay the formation of a unity government, while his top brass seem focused on squirreling away as much cash as they can for as long as they are able. Mugabe's foot soldiers continue to harass, imprison and murder MDC activists. (See pictures of political...
Whicker, Mark • review by of sports events missed by Jaycee Lee Dugard while she was held captive for 18 years and repeatedly raped by a madman is widely believed to be the worst sports column ever written and is, of course, apologized...
...therefore poorly—designed for the needs of early adolescence. Young told the Boston Globe that he will delay making specific recommendations—which he had promised to deliver 100 days after taking office—because he did not have sufficient time to review the issue, as schools have been closed for the summer. For decades the community has been debating the state of middle school education in the district. The city has no middle schools, but rather one K-6 school and eleven that are K-8, which feed into a single high school. The school...