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...utter failure of the Lamont campaign to unseat Lieberman makes one wonder: Was any of this actually worth it? Lamont and his base of left-wing support in the blogosphere consistently attacked Lieberman for his staunch support of the Iraq war and his willingness to work with the Republican administration. Focusing on this subject alone, they ignored the fact that Lieberman has remained a loyal Democrat on the vast majority of issues including environmentalism, a woman’s right to choose, and government assistance to the poor and elderly...
...free-market ideology to keep a bitterly divided Mexico from erupting after he takes office. Special federal police forces have already been called in to quell deadly riots in the poor southern state of Oaxaca. In its broader context, the violence reflects a national backlash against the utter failure of globalization and a fledgling democracy to address Mexico's gross economic inequality. And that powder keg is nudging Calderon to acknowledge that the sort of social investment and regulatory reform programs for which he once ridiculed Lopez Obrador may not be such a bad idea. He recently spoke favorably...
...cranky uncle at Christmas dinner, daring to utter indiscretions about the family members who were trying to talk over his bad manners. He was the eternal renegade, refusing to make feel-good movies or boys'-life adventures or simple melodramas - simple anything. For more than 35 years, Robert Altman, who died Monday night in Los Angeles at 81, was the truth-telling leper outside the film-industry cathedral, and the most cunning chiseler at the staid monument Hollywood has made of movie...
...would like to suggest Kim Jong Il, the controversial leader of the rogue state of North Korea. His continued defiance of the global community in the area of nuclear testing and his utter disregard for world opinion definitely put him in the category of Person of the Year...
Decades of futility for New England college teams have resulted in utter apathy to football’s holy Saturday. Last year, New England was the only region in the U.S. that didn’t televise the Oklahoma-Texas game, college football’s October version of Pats-Colts...