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...that even if he is acquitted his days as one of the most powerful men in the House could be over. "You leave a job like this, there is no coming back," says a top Republican official who likes DeLay and thinks he will be cleared. "Politics abhors a vacuum more than anything else, and it's going to move past him too quickly...
...guess there have always been folks out there who believe that education can be a “neutral,” apolitical pursuit—that learning can take place in a vacuum, independent of “reality” and its “problems.” But as the late Brazilian educator Paulo Freire brilliantly argued, the claim that learning should be separate from transforming our world is a political claim itself. It is equally political—yet infinitely more ethical—to make the case as Freire did that learning should ultimately...
...civilian lives rests with local governments which are supposed to “hold the line” until help arrives. In Katrina’s case the local and state officials were completely, entirely, and irreversibly overwhelmed from the very start of the disaster, creating the power vacuum that was quickly filled by all of the darkest elements of human nature...
...mayor of New Orleans and the Governor of Louisiana had botched the response, and the feds were only cleaning up their mess. The locals seemed flabbergasted by such claims, insisting that the crisis had immediately overwhelmed their capacity and that the feds had failed to step into the vacuum...
...Some are specific to his CEO style, others endemic to second terms, but all of them came together in early September much like Katrina itself. The first was his elongated summer vacation: Bush upped to nearly five weeks his traditional month of working vacation at the Crawford ranch, a vacuum that always alarmed his aides because it gave others an opening for capturing the news agenda. While the staff agonized about whether he should try to head off mounting criticism of the Iraq war by meeting a second time with Cindy Sheehan to discuss the death of her soldier...