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...Shah and the Soviets both paid dearly for ignoring history. The Shah's equation of modernization with Westernization proved folly. Like the Soviets, he ignored the strength of religious and indigenous mores. Harnessed to grievances (the Shah's repression, Soviet imperialism) and to technologies (U.S. Stinger missiles, in the case of the Afghan war), those sentiments became strong enough to defeat the Soviet forces and send the Shah into exile. Importing foreign ideologies or language can create bitter historical ironies. The nuclear program that the Shah championed as a symbol of his Westernization and modernization is now, in the hands...
...kinds of subject matter better associated with his father Stephen King. And like the heroes of such stories, Hill (who writes under his first and middle names) eventually discovered that sometimes you can't escape the past. Sometimes, in fact, it's best to not even try. On the strength of two masterly thrillers--2007's Heart-Shaped Box and his newest, Horns--Hill has emerged as one of America's finest horror writers...
...Treasury Secretary, what was your greatest strength and your greatest weakness? -Debra Turner, New York City I would think my greatest strength was decisiveness. My biggest weakness was public speaking. I never was able to let the American people know that the bailout was not about the banks but about Main Street and how a collapse of the financial system would be devastating...
Chevalier was right about one thing, however. The cookies did keep me going. I felt no loss of energy or strength and no unbearable hunger pangs...
...danger of chronic joblessness is that jobs are a part of the social fabric. Ideally, they connect people to constructive projects and well-ordered institutions. They foster self-discipline and reward responsibility. Some optimists theorize that crime rates might continue to drop in coming years as police pit their strength against a dwindling army of criminals. In his recent book, When Brute Force Fails, UCLA's Kleiman argues that new strategies for targeting repeat offenders - including reforms to make probation an effective sanction rather than a feckless joke - could cut crime and reduce prison populations simultaneously. Safer communities, in turn...