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...have not been lulled into a coma of patriotic contentment. Every time the newspaper publishes the names of our servicemen and service-women killed in Iraq, I read them aloud. I say the names of the fallen to acknowledge their lives and their deaths. I am calling the roll of the dead that this President must answer for. Karyn J. Powers Wausau, Wisconsin...
...voters to accept the need for painful structural reforms and a slimmer welfare state "will be the main political task of the new government." Are the two Solidarity veterans up to it? They'd better be. Since joining the E.U. last year, Poland's been on something of a roll. The country has enjoyed impressive growth (an expected 4% this year), booming exports of food and some manufactured goods to the rest of the Union, and a higher profile on the world stage. This has instilled a new confidence in the burgeoning entrepreneurial class, emboldening its members to demand solutions...
...Bears will roll by three scores...
...airline industry is reaching new lows. These facts taken together are rather disconcerting. With increasing competition from smaller airlines, many large companies are scaling back to save money. The question is, where are they scaling back? Now, we don’t mind missing out on a stale bread roll or two, but if airplane maintenance and thus safety are in any way shortchanged, well, we’re dead...
This is not to say that the federal government’s response has been exemplary; in fact, it has been far from it. Heads should roll at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Department of Homeland Security, and with any luck public outrage will compel the firing of the untalented hacks who were in charge during the destruction of New Orleans. However, the suggestion that without war (à la Michael Moore’s line of “all our helicopters are in Iraq”), or Bush’s budget cuts, or some...