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...just frustration, mostly. I was at the end of this long spell of dating a certain sort of guy, which is what I thought I wanted. At the end of Idaho, I was felt so squelched intellectually, I was like, "I want a guy who read a lot of books, just like me!" That's what I thought I needed. I thought, that's the only way it will work. I started dating these guys, all whom were interesting people, actually - artists, and Ph.D. - holding literary theorists - all very intense intellectuals. New York is famous for this type of person...
...Undoubtedly, the U.S. will face resistance from China and Russia, who benefit from favorable oil contracts with Tehran today. To the extent possible—while respecting the autonomy of the Iranian people—the U.S. should assuage Chinese and Russian fears that a new Iranian administration would spell an end to these favorable deals at the profit of U.S. oil interests. Failing support from Beijing or Moscow, the current state of affairs requires the U.S. to undermine the Tehran regime on its own. The ties between the elites in Iran and fundamentalist terrorist organizations like al-Qaeda...
...There will always be absolutists who believe that any limits on research are born of ignorance or superstition, squaring off against those who note that you can?t spell science without s-i-n. But for everyone else caught between the hope for new cures, and fears of powers that, once unleashed, would forever change the very nature of our humanity, these are hard questions, more than worthy of the President?s time, and our attention...
...Alberta does not represent the entire west. British Columbia pointedly elected five fewer Conservatives to Ottawa this month than it did in 2004, and its longstanding competition with Alberta may spell trouble for Harper's government. Even some Albertans wonder whether they may end up regretting their upturn in political fortune. Alberta commentator Ted Byfield fears that the province's fierce sense of self-reliance will be weakened under a Harper government that expects the province to subordinate its resources to the national interest and allows its wealth to "drain" away to other provinces with little in return--especially...
...Rice didn't spell out that position, but on Jan. 5, discussing the possibility of a strong Hamas showing, she said, "Hamas is a terrorist group that does not recognize the existence of Israel and it is a group that has not renounced violence and the problem, of course, is a very practical problem. In addition to the fact that the United States won't change its policies toward Hamas, the practical problem is that the Palestinian leadership in the roadmap is committed to a renunciation of violence, committed to dismantling terrorist organizations, committed to a peaceful road." With Hamas...