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...What could they possibly have to say?She was contemplating a return to the bougainvillea--it couldn’t hurt--when she saw Frederick ambling towards her. His thin body was clad in black, and he had allowed his hair to grow long and shaggy.The look did not suit him, Felicity thought dispassionately.“Good afternoon, dear,” Frederick began hesitantly. “I trust you are recovered?”Felicity did not deign to reply.“Felicity,” he said again, with more force this time...
...Obama doesn't do spontaneous combustion. And he's keenly aware of the deeper danger of fire for America's first black presidential nominee. Over the past 19 months, he's been attacked as a naive novice, an empty suit, a tax-and-spend liberal, an arugula-grazing litist and a corrupt ward heeler, but the attacks that nearly derailed him involved the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, attacks designed to portray Obama as an angry black man. White America has embraced unthreatening African Americans like Tiger Woods, Oprah Winfrey, Will Smith and Colin Powell, but this is still a majority...
...tired of partisan attacks. And that's why they initially asked Democratic groups not to air any independent ads on Obama's behalf; they wanted to control the brand themselves. But the Service Employees International Union recently aired an anti-McCain ad, and other groups are poised to follow suit. Earlier polls had produced "reckless overconfidence on the part of our donors," one Democratic operative said, but that overconfidence is gone...
...contrast, I have been brought into contact with any number of historians, in America and abroad, who have twisted the facts of history to suit their own particular political or social views or prejudices. Mainstream German history textbooks today routinely ignore or treat merely as footnotes such events as Kristallnacht, the Holocaust and German guilt, while the more extreme deny their existence entirely. At various points in the past century, entirely reputable historians came down on all sides of the Vietnam War, the Armenian massacres by Turks, the humanity of Soviet communism and, today, American policies across the Middle East...
With a talented and wealthy crop of students leaving the public school system every year for greener pastures, it’s become far too easy to simply label that system “broken” and follow suit. Renewed community-wide participation in state education would be accompanied by a sense of urgency to fix that system’s myriad problems. Of course there is a place in the world for private schools; it’s simply important, in the name of equal opportunity, to ensure that the discrepancy between them and their public counterparts should...