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...That's money left on the table by a nation that is hard pressed to pay for basic infrastructure. Little wonder the pressure will be on Yudhoyono to make swift progress on the economic front. Yudhoyono "gives the impression of someone who has an understanding of the problems and has a clear idea of what needs to be done and how he's going to do it," says Agost Benard, a credit analyst at Standard & Poor's in Singapore. But political honeymoons tend to be short, and the feel-good factor could easily fade if first impressions quickly prove unfounded...
...military responsibility. No matter who is elected U.S. President in November, we have to find each other again. Tomas Bech Madsen Soro, Denmark The Price of Spurious Ads Joe Klein's column "What The Swifties Cost America" [Sept. 6], on the way political attack ads like those of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth have stifled real political debate, was refreshing. It is very disheartening that politics has become a constant bashing of opponents instead of focusing on the issues and actually doing something to address them. It's especially discouraging when you consider what good might be done with...
When the College was last in session, news reports provided a near-constant reminder of the war being fought on the other side of the world. Three months later, the coverage of the war may have lessened, but the costs have surely not. Despite the early perception of a swift victory last spring, little has actually improved on the ground in Iraq. For the American soldiers in the thick of it, this summer has been anything but a vacation...
...record that is really important; that is, their respective records as public servants. But instead of focusing on substantive debate on the candidates’ political records, it seems that the media cannot ignore the lure of sensation. The major news networks’ excessive concentration on the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth’s crusade to mar Kerry’s courageous Vietnam record this summer and their continued focus on these suspect documents now demonstrate a frustrating disregard for solid coverage of real issues...
...veterans involved in SBVT were either swift or truthful, they would have challenged Kerry's military medals 35 years ago, when they were awarded. JOHN DEBOER Sequim, Wash...