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...withdrew troops from Iraq not because their work was done but for political reasons [June 16]. Once again, the burden falls on American soldiers. Have we forgotten how much we owe the Americans for their sacrifices in World War II? Where is the strength of character that says you stand by your friends in bad times as well as good? Eric Wilson, Clear Island Waters, Queensland...
...1970s, Jesse Jackson said, "You are not a man because you can make a baby. You're only a man if you can raise a baby, protect a baby and provide for a baby." But like King before him, Jackson understood that one must beat back the barriers that stand in the way of individual initiative. Obama brilliantly cited a Chris Rock routine about black men expecting praise for things they were supposed to do, like stay out of jail and take care of their children. But Rock's humor is so effective because he is just as hard...
...food aid is not devoid of controversy. On the one hand, of course, no one wants to see people starve. At the hospital where James Lemukol is superintendent, a mother cradles her 3-year-old son; he's always been too weak to learn to stand. Others arrive so swollen - their bellies distended and extremities bloated from the fluid that leaks out of weakened blood vessels - that medical staff have trouble finding veins for the IV lines needed to fight malaria or other opportunistic infections. But on the other hand, there has always been the risk that long-term food...
...shaving accident, finds herself in hospital with the time and opportunity to ponder her favorite issues: bodily functions, bodily fluids and sex. Helen meticulously describes all sorts of sexual practices (involving men, female prostitutes and avocado stones) while expressing contempt for personal hygiene. Her attitude reflects Roche's own stand against the clean, waxed and odorless female beauty ideal propagated by the advertising industry and popular TV shows, such as former swimsuit model Heidi Klum's Germany's Next Top Model. "There are all these ads suggesting that you always have to smell as if you just came...
...groundsmen to keep the soil underneath drier and firmer. A firmer surface causes the ball to bounce higher. A high bounce is anathema to the serve-and-volley player, who relies on approach shots skidding low through the court. What's more, rye, unlike fescue, grows in tufts that stand straight up; these tufts slow a tennis ball down as it lands...