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...unflattering light. We have an awfully easy nation to be patriotic in. If you want to help the war effort, says the President, go out and spend money. Meanwhile he and the loyal opposition will decide whether defeating Osama bin Laden requires Americans to swallow a tax cut or suffer new infusions of federal spending. If this is what you can do for your country, then ask not what your country can do for you. It's hard to imagine how the government could coddle us more...
...Vice President Dick Cheney is a stern shadow President in night-vision goggles, and last week his job was to prepare us for darker days to come. "We have to assume there will be more attacks," he said. "And for the first time in our history, we will probably suffer more casualties here at home in America than will our troops overseas...
...Alessandro points to current discrepancies between schools—and evidence that when poor students are grouped together they suffer from dimished performance—as a defense of the changes she proposes...
Pitilessly astringent, formally exact, observant, pessimistic and skeptical of "progress," Naipaul can also be, at times, intolerably nasty: Who but Naipaul, when asked what the red dot on a Hindu woman's forehead signified, would answer, "It means My head is empty"? Naipaul doesn't suffer fools gladly, and to him the world is full of fools. Fuller, perhaps, than it really is. But he has been known to hit targets that few others would touch at the time: witness, for instance, his scarifying treatment of the ugly pretensions of English "black power" in the 1960s, in The Return...
...attacks on Arafat will come from the PFLP organization in Damascus rather than in the West Bank or Gaza. Arafat decided to arrest at least eight of them. The Popular Front, for him, is a lightweight boxer that he can easily knock down. But he would suffer from the campaign they would launch against him from Damascus, which started yesterday with accusations that the arrests are aimed to serve only the interests of the Americans and Israelis...