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...misguided. Consider, for example, President Bushs reaction last spring when the storm clouds were beginning to collect around DeLay. Even after the majority leader was formally admonished by the House Ethics Committee and details about his other serious ethics violations were beginning to emerge, Bush pointedly offered DeLay a ride on Air Force One and referred to him repeatedly as my friend. Other conservatives maintained that the questions about DeLays ethical behavior were part of a liberal conspiracy designed to deviously topple the influential Republican lawmaker from his seat. Unfortunately, this type of counterproductive response to legitimate questions of ethics...
...night Christmas full-moon party. Thus, in a few minutes, the sea destroyed the very world that it had built. But surfers are a resilient lot. Before the tsunami, many braved Sri Lanka's civil war and Arugam Bay's previous lack of power or telephones to ride its magnificent waves. So even though the area is still recovering, with some buildings little more than piles of rubble, the surfers are back, many helping (both physically and financially) to rebuild homes and the hotels and restaurants they knew so well. The Brits even returned for their summer championships. Naturally...
...well as Lord of the Rings dialogue ("May Qormusda grant you long life, khan of the Tunshan"). Such false notes are rare. Di Natale's account of the fighting at Stalingrad is thrilling, her descriptions of postwar German privations heartbreaking, her imagery cunning (Berger, for instance, hitches a ride to the killing fields of Stalingrad on a truckload of sheep), and her insights into the weirdness of Western ways perceptive. Back home, "I would already have had a husband," Kaja laments as a surly Cologne teenager. "Here, on the other hand, I lived a kind of extended childhood, in which...
...raise money not for one of its established charities--the Human Rights Campaign, say, or the Democratic National Committee--but for an obscure organization that has quietly become one of the fastest-growing gay groups in the nation, the Point Foundation. Launched in 2001, Point gives lavish (often full-ride) scholarships to gay students. It is one of the few national groups conceived explicitly to help gay kids, and it is a leading example of how the gay movement is responding to the emergence this decade of hundreds of thousands of openly gay youths...
Olsen believes Point is an exception, and despite the gift bags, he's right. The weekend retreat was packed with anodyne activities such as a boat ride to twee Mackinac Island. Lancaster spends an inordinate amount of energy pairing each scholar with a career-appropriate mentor. The mentors are accomplished and tend to be wealthy--a hedge-fund manager, a university president, movie people--and all undergo background checks...