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...Portion of college Democrats who say religion's influence on American life is increasing; two-thirds of them think the perceived growing sway of faith is a "bad thing...
...nearer this year than it was last, and maybe-I say it with the smallest of maybes-it is farther away." In many ways, 1952 might be called the Year of the Generals. The entrenched ones, like Stalin and Franco and Mao and Tito, held their familiar sway. Others came to power; in coups d'etat (Egypt's Naguib and Cuba's Batista), or in honest elections (Greece's Papagos and in the U.S., Eisenhower). The generals held the headlines; so much so that, to the hurried reader, the manner of a nation's defense...
...matter for which it has been rapidly losing credibility. The atrocities of Abu-Grahib and Guantanamo Bay preclude the U.S. from touting its own human rights standards as higher than those of others. A protest vote from a nation with such a questionable human rights record holds little sway, especially given its reputation for inflexibility and unilateralism in the U.N. Rather than stubbornly vote down the resolution and refuse to seek a seat on the Council, the U.S. should act upon its supposed commitment to human rights by encouraging measures that represent improvement in this arena. Especially given the prominence...
...Summers’ last months as president winding down, Bok’s selection of the current president’s critics reflects a willingness to hand further influence to some of the same faculty members who have previously pushed back against Summers’ attempts to gain more sway in the Faculty...
...increasing domination of U.S. policy by the hunger for cheap oil in a world of dwindling supplies, which has led in turn to an obsession with projecting U.S. power across the endlessly volatile Middle East. Another is the spectacle of a Republican Party seriously under the sway of Christians who believe in biblical inerrancy, a reading of Scripture that inspires them to apocalyptic obsessions with that same part of the world. Finally, there's the headlong growth of American debt of all kinds--household spending, a massive trade gap and a federal deficit that leaves American policy susceptible...