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...knows. There's plenty written about the lack of love at Harvard, about the measly dating scene and the cold, foreboding social life of Harvard. But what about those of us who have everything we want--everything--and still manage to screw things...
...life, as you may have noticed, is not a close-order drill. Even in the Marines things get messy. At the Guantanamo naval base in Cuba, known to servicemen as Gitmo, a private is dead -- the result of harassment by two members of his platoon. The victim was a screw-up who compounded his sins by stepping outside the chain of command to report a rules infraction and seek a transfer. A "Code Red" -- informal disciplinary action by his barracksmates -- is suspected. But are the offenders wholly culpable? Or did they act under orders (or tacit encouragement) from superior officers...
...things that the Not-So-Fabulous Bush and Baker Boys did not screw up was bringing the Israelis and their Arab neighbors to the negotiating table...
When one desperate man takes on more than 500 of his colleagues in an attempt to preserve his position in life, surely that man has a screw loose. But President Bush, seemingly in possession of his sanity, made the Congress the heathen enemy in his holy war for re-election. There was no War on Drugs, no War on Poverty, no War on Crime--only the War on Congress. So why has the Congress taken its beating lying down...
Public officials must take responsibility for their actions. When they screw up, they should admit it. When they lie, they should face the consequences...