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...only increased the frustration of some government officials. A spokesman for the Prime Minister this week denounced the NLA as the "Talibans of Europe," and compared their leaders with Hitler and Slobodan Milosevic. "Their philosophy - territories, ethnic entities, religion, heroin and weapons - must be cut down at the root. Europe is too narrow to be their home as well." Ordinary Macedonian Slavs in the streets of Skopje appear equally unwilling to face the possibility that the rebels, whatever their motives and however murderous their tactics, cannot be "crushed and destroyed," at least not by them. (NATO forces could manage...
...Personalizing makes it seem more manageable. Bin Laden may be out of reach right now, safe in the care of Afghanistan's Taliban rulers. But by making him the root of the problem, we hold out the possibility that his ultimate removal from the scene will make the world safe from Islamist terror. A comforting thought, but a delusion nonetheless...
...Perhaps after the clamor, reflection will slowly take root. Perhaps we'll just distract ourselves with the teary family stories and the umpteenth capital-punishment pro-and-cons. Or switch off Katie, put a CD on the car stereo instead of the news. And either way, mutter afterward about how the parade of talking heads trivialized a moment of national gravity, made it into another meaningless parade, another Survivor finale - how this most intimate and public of moments was stripped of its chilling meaning. Yes, yes. And isn't that exactly what we will have wanted...
...seeing more and more programs with an advocacy bent. People are becoming more and more involved in the direct service aspect and this is just another way of getting at the root of the problem," he says. "As PBHA's become more and more involved in the direct service aspect, the underlying issues become more and more apparent...
...speech given at the Belmont Hill School in Belmont, Mass., Rudenstine spoke of the root of his passion for reading—a meeting with a high school adviser during his first term as a scholarship student at the Wooster School in Danbury, Connecticut...