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Rumsfeld and the services put aside their feud for a real war, and over time the need to transform things seemed to disappear, partly because the terrorist attacks opened the cash spigot and hard choices didn't seem necessary. Instead of having to choose either weapons of the future or those of the past, the Pentagon last year bought both. Rumsfeld has canceled only a single major weapons program in two years, the $11 billion Army Crusader artillery gun, while allowing such dubious programs as the Air Force's $200 million F22 Raptor fighter and the Navy's $2 billion...
...this is to say nothing about conditions in the camp, which boasted—until the second day we were there, when management trucked in more—only about a dozen port-a-potties, a single water spigot, and $5/[a]piece showers at facilities across the street...
...deny, a fact he couldn't dismiss, a world he couldn't fully control. We wonder no more. Bush's signature second-term domestic agenda--Social Security reform--died a pitiless, lingering death in 2005, as the public simply refused to buy it. His gleeful opening of the fiscal spigot--the biggest increase in public spending since F.D.R.--got deficit hawks squawking enough to force the first tiny potential cuts in pork, if nowhere near enough to control the looming debt. The Republican congressional guru, Tom DeLay, discovered that gerrymandering districts in Texas could lead to a Supreme Court challenge...
...they began cutting for one of two reasons: to feel less or to feel more. Some kids suffering from such problems as anxiety, depression or borderline-personality disorder--a condition characterized by explosiveness and unstable relationships--find their pain so overwhelming that they simply shut off their emotional spigot. Cutting, they find, is a way to kick-start feelings when the numbness becomes worse than the pain. Other kids say the opposite--that their emotional turmoil is so great that they need something to serve as a bleed valve to calm them down in times of crisis. "I would...
...Thirty-five years ago, the pipeline of women to the top was empty because the spigot had never been opened,” Goldin and Katz wrote in an op-ed in The Boston Globe last month which defended Summers from the torrent of criticism his recent remarks on women in science created...