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Coles’ subsequent decision to relocate the magazine inaugurated a period of piecemeal efforts to sustain the its viability. DoubleTake was saved first by federal legislation that granted eligible non-profit institutions some proceeds from the Department of Treasury’s coin sales, then by a series of smaller contributions and grants. Although publication continued until the summer of 2002, the subscription base by that time had dropped to 25,000, and some contributors had waited for over a year without receiving compensation. Their grievances began appearing in public fora, and the outcry reached a point where Coles...
Assumption two: War will not achieve democratic reform in Iraq. On this point, Bush himself is an optimist, affirming that Iraqis are “skilled and educated people” who, in the absence of tyrants like Saddam, will work to sustain the most enlightened form of government possible (representative democracy...
Maybe the rhetoric protesters use makes this fallacy less obvious (and therefore less repugnant to casual supporters), but rhetoric doesn’t change the basic idea. Peace protesters offer a gloomy assessment of the Iraqi people’s ability to sustain democratic rule, pessimism that Bush, despite all of his “axis of evil” rhetoric, thankfully does not share...
...same time, we must insist on being told the truth about why this war seems so inevitable. The moral justifications for war against Saddam would surely lack any persuasive power had Sept. 11, 2001, not happened. As Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has rightly observed, any attempt to sustain truthful speech was lost as soon as the word war was used to describe the events of Sept. 11. What happened on that day was not war; it was murder. In his rush to assure the American people that everything could return to normal, President Bush declared...
...size Papillon named Genevieve. Just for fun, Fried had written a handful of comic essays about his pooch, which his wife Katrina distributed to several online dog groups. After getting enthusiastic e-mail responses to the stories, Fried decided that he might have enough humorous anecdotes about Genevieve to sustain a book. With time on his hands and a marketing background to help him get a book into stores, he started Eiffel Press in 1999. Fried hired a book packager to help design the publication, and in 2000, he self-published Memoirs of a Papillon: The Canine Guide to Living...