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Crackdowns, say many experts, usually serve to radicalize the local population, further stimulating the flow of money and new recruits to terrorist groups. But the popular calls for revenge after the subway bombings left the government with few other choices. Even the champion of a softer approach, President Dmitri Medvedev, pledged to get "more cruel" against the terrorists on April 1. On Tuesday, the state-run polling agency VTsIOM reported that 75% of Russians say they believe terrorism can only be defeated by force, up from 70% in 2002. There are no public debates in Russia about how to treat...
...subsidizing abortion on the health care exchange that is expected to be set up in 2014 to provide insurance to upwards of 31 million uninsured Americans. Prochoice groups were outraged, accusing Stupak of moving beyond current law, and the amendment was stripped out in the Senate and replaced with softer language that Stupak and his group felt did not go far enough. Sunday's last-minute Executive Order, expected to be signed by President Obama immediately following passage of the bill, was the compromise that allowed Stupak and his group to vote for final passage of health care reform...
...shareholder protections. When I spoke to Corker last month, he suggested that Obama's relatively modest proposal to recoup the costs of the financial bailouts by taxing the risk-taking of large banks made him wonder if he was living in Venezuela. And he's considered one of the softer-edged Republicans. (See the Top 10 Embarrassing Things Voters Have Overlooked...
Dodd is not naï ve; he knew that ostensibly softer-edged Republicans like Senator Charles Grassley had drawn out health care negotiations for months before scuttling the talks with tea-party rhetoric about grannycide. But Dodd is retiring after 36 years in the Senate, and he was eager to cut a deal for the sake of his legacy. He knew he needed GOP votes, and he figured that after a catastrophic meltdown, financial reform would be less polarizing than health care. And Corker did seem to be negotiating in good faith, even if GOP leaders were clearly eager...
Lyrically, the album isn’t particularly fascinating or thought-provoking. At their worst, the lyrics are inane nonsense—“Never had a false alarm / Softer than a baby’s arm”—but there are moments that are much cleverer—“All I have is time / To bring back this bloodline of mine.” However, considering the fact that Rogue’s voice is sometimes inaudible over the band’s walls of sound, this weakness doesn’t seem...