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...Class War Michael Kinsley is right to condemn affirmative action based on social class [Aug. 25]. This proposal is a logical extension of the compassionate but misguided urge to reward human inadequacy and punish achievement so as to achieve an egalitarian leveling of success in life. From childhood we learn to try to behave in ways that will be rewarded and avoid behaviors that will be punished. Class-based affirmative action would perversely ensure that this value system was turned upside down. American greatness was built by honoring the natural order, which rewards competence and punishes failure. Reversing this order...
Anbar's tribal leaders say they feel threatened. "Our reward for defeating Al Qaeda is that we've been sidelined," says Sheikh Hamid al Hayess, a senior member of the movement. "We are sensing a change toward us," says Colonel Rashid. "The government should help us, not try to break us with its decisions...
...Chad does have a plan. He's come across a disc containing Cox's notes toward a mem-wah, and he brings Linda into the notion of calling Cox to return the disc; maybe the grateful owner will give them a small reward. Cox misinterprets Chad's call as blackmail, and rears up to snort and neigh at the do-gooders. That brings Harry into the plot, and things devolve from there...
...says. Guilty as charged. "People don't get to the other 20 competitions a year. I've won many tournaments by scoring big on the last shot. I've had big leads and held them. It's just a shame that I don't have that medal as a reward for all the work that goes into this...
...Lomong's neutral stance may disappoint some, but given what Lomong has gone through, you can't blame him for just cherishing this moment for what it is - a reward for a very brave man. You can't blame him for staying positive; he's lived through enough negatives in his life. When he was just six, a Sudanese rebel group kidnapped him and 50 others while he was in a church service. "We were praising God," he says. "All of a sudden, soldiers came in and told everyone to lay down." He escaped prison, and ran for three days...