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...separately, as is done in the U.S., could unintentionally reinforce the view that while ethnicity is a product of culture and society, race represents something else - a set of characteristics inherent to a certain type of person (e.g., black people are athletic; Asians are smart). (See TIME's special on Dr. Martin Luther King...
...final point is that health care was going to be hard in any environment with any Congress. There's a reason why seven Presidents and seven Congresses have failed to do it. It is a massive undertaking. It involves every special interest imaginable. The American people know that the status quo isn't working, and yet sometimes the devil you know is better than the devil you don't. So it is very easy to caricature any efforts at reform as negative...
...their deal and Nebraska get its deal and everybody else get their deals. What would you say to that person, who probably voted for you because you promised change and - I was just reading David Plouffe's book [The Audacity to Win] - the emphasis on going after the special interests? But you've made deals with all the special interests to get this done. Well, I'll tell you what, Joe. What I would say is, If you look at this bill when it is said and done - not where it was coming out of one committee or where...
...that? My sense of it is that [U.S. special envoy to the Middle East George] Mitchell spent a number of months negotiating a settlement deal and saw some progress from the Israelis and kind of got blinded by that, because he didn't see that it wasn't sufficient progress for the Palestinians...
...well, it was a sign. One with his name on it. Someone had made it by hand and planted it in the snow in a front yard near Lunenburg. That was back in December, when the polls showed he was running 30 points behind Democrat Martha Coakley in the special election to fill the Senate seat once held by the late Edward Kennedy. Pretty soon after that, he told me, "they were popping up all over the place." People were even spelling out his name in snowbanks. (See 10 elections that changed America...