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...although Iraq has tarnished the GOP foreign policy brand, Democrats remain vulnerable. When the moderate Democratic group Third Way asked voters in September whom they trusted more on national security, Democrats trailed by 14 points. (The gap has widened substantially since late 2006.) On the question of "ensuring a strong military," they trailed by 30 points--an astonishing figure, given that it is a Republican President who has stretched the Army to its breaking point...
...volunteer, I was among the 40% of whites in the crowd at rallies, and I soaked in the amazing diversity of blacks in attendance. I began to learn, as you say, what blacks have "to show America and the world." This time the fire is like flames from coal: strong, quiet, productive energy. Your article rings true with my experiences: Obama is not the wave; he rides it. He represents what we strive for in ways that transcend race. Gerald Remington, ORANGE CITY...
...mentor team: Summers is the deep, intellectual economist who can be brusque if not arrogant. Geithner is a smoother, harder-to-read operator who gets along well with everyone. Of the two, Summers is the one to watch. He is expected to do for the economy what strong-minded and ambitious National Security Advisers like Henry Kissinger have done for foreign policy: plan it, set it and control...
...flush Jesus," noted Rhonda VanDyke Colby); other weeks, the conversation runs the gamut from politics to premarital sex. "The first task is deconstructing what people think they know," she says. "A rigorous faith is going to serve them well. A rigid one is going to break when the first strong wind comes along." Several past participants have joined new churches; others say they've come to a deeper understanding of God. In some way, most are still searching, a process their leaders hope continues. As Rhonda puts it, "Maybe the greatest sin of my generation is certitude...
...have nothing against reggaeton," one of my friends told me in a typical refrain. "It's just not Cuban. And it's not music." Those are strong words, and Cuban hip-hop artists would argue that their music is edgier and more political. But for indigenous, righteous, complex and complete music, there is nothing like Cuba's timba. It has been a vital outlet for taking on taboos, like Los Van Van's early critique of rampant prostitution in a 1996 song about papayas: go ahead, they sang, touch it; it's a national product. During the economic crisis following...