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...years later, our newest fix of pessimism. Why? Our economic growth rate is second in the West only to tiny Finland's. It's probably just a symptom of $3 gasoline. Nonetheless, it's back. This time it's not Russia or Japan but other inscrutable foreigners, Indian and Chinese. What was once rather unkindly said about Brazil--"the country of the future and always will be"--I say of them. I'm not worried...
...Fight.” Jarecki says he fears that Americans, particularly young people, no longer understand the true meaning of freedom. He also doesn’t think they understand the implications of the war in Iraq: “this war is only a symptom of a larger problem,” Jarecki says. He recalls asking a group of Americans why the United States is at war and they answered, “To fight for freedom.” Then, when he followed up with, “What kind of freedom?” the respondents...
...although he urges his compatriots to support the fresh deployment, he understands their need to debate the issue. "You can say that the alliance is evolving and developing and learning lessons at the same time," he says. Insurgents fighting isaf troops might interpret the Dutch debate as a symptom of Nato's weakness. In fact it's a messy demonstration of its strength...
...promise to bury the Oslo peace process. President Bush's "road map" toward peace is little more than an empty mantra occasionally mouthed by both sides when the Americans are listening, but which neither has shown any serious inclination to implement. If anything, Hamas's victory is a symptom of the failure of the peace process...
...symptom of lobbying run amuck is the proliferation of earmarks--spending placed in legislation, often without public review, for specific projects. "Beating up on lobbyists is easy to do, but we have to put our own house in order, and at the top of that list is earmark reform," says Republican Congressman Jeff Flake of Arizona. The most famous recent earmark was last fall's so-called Bridge to Nowhere--a provision that Representatives from Alaska inserted into a bill to spend close to $223 million to make it easier to reach a virtually uninhabited area of the state...