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...looms over every modern president, not just Republicans, as a goad or a reprimand, a taunt or an inspiration. Historian, hunter, soldier, essayist, cowboy, megalomaniac - he was bigger than life, in the way that all politicians hope to be. Richard Nixon, a president whose insecurities and intimations of unworthiness reached pathological levels, invoked TR throughout his presidency, right up to the mawkish speech he gave as he left the White House two steps ahead of the sheriff. For politicians of the soft and pampered boomer generation - "well-meaning little men," as TR once called the type, "with receding chins...
...have credit cards or a driver's license. Industry watchers say Social Security numbers may not be a cure-all either, in part because of the global nature of these sites--the biggest of which, MySpace, said last week it is expanding into 11 other countries. Connecticut attorney general Richard Blumenthal didn't accept all the naysaying: "Don't tell me it can't be done. If we can put a man on the moon, we can verify age." All 50 state prosecutors are scheduled to meet this week to discuss social networking, and at least one of them...
...month. But as you rightly observe, the political will does not exist to increase the peacekeeping force to a level that would make that possible. It is a shame that the decision to allocate resources in a crisis is too often based on political considerations rather than humanitarian need. Richard J. Brennan, M.D. International Rescue Committee New York City Benjamin Coghlan, M.D. Burnet Institute Melbourne, Australia...
...study in Europe and the U.S., and firm agreements among Congo's neighboring nations to keep their armies away. As we debate U.S. involvement in Sudan, perhaps we can spare a few minutes to consider the plight of those innocent souls pictured so well by TIME's reporting. Richard B. Lawson Mountlake Terrace, Washington...
...issue a proclamation calling for continued resistance to Union forces. With Yankee troops hard on his heels, he then drifted farther and farther south: through Virginia's fields and leafy forests, into North Carolina, South Carolina, and eventually Georgia. As Davis's scattered generals-Lee, Joseph Johnston, and Richard Taylor, among others-one after another, laid down their arms, the fifty-six-year-old president, deep into spring, still nourished stubborn hopes. If he could somehow link up with Southern troops still in the field, perhaps those in Texas under General Edmund Kirby Smith, he and his brethren in gray...