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...Summers does adjust his ways in wake of the recent crisis, precedent seems to suggest that the media may not take very much notice. After all, as dramatic as his development was said to be at the Treasury, his reputation was thrown right back to the days of the World Bank memo as soon as he made his first missteps at Harvard...
...just a month ago that Republicans, confident in the wake of President Bush?s Social Security pitch during his State of the Union address, were predicting that Americans were convinced there were serious and imminent problems with the program and were ready for GOP legislation to fix it. They aren't so assured now. Returning from congressional recesses, Republicans are admitting that they haven?t yet closed the deal, and now say that the "educating the public" on the issue might take months. "We have to convince the American people there's a problem," House Speaker Dennis Hastert said this...
...equally convinced that they are fighting to uphold the military's core values. In that sense, the Pantano case is a window on a larger debate within the military about how and when to apply the rules of war in a shadowy fight against an unconventional enemy. In the wake of the Abu Ghraib prison abuses and other highly publicized excesses--such as the televised Marine shooting of a wounded insurgent in Fallujah last fall--the top brass is disinclined to tolerate rogue behavior of any kind. When asked about Pantano last week, General Michael Hagee, commandant of the Marine...
Despite its colossal box office success, the original Deep Throat left a wake of disaster for its creators and stars. Inside Deep Throat gives a whirlwind account of the manic blend of glamour, controversy, and despair that arose from just a six-day shoot with some low-grade cameras in southern Florida...
...vicious colonial response that is damning, to be sure. But Britain’s colonial empire in East Africa was not an unambiguously evil empire. In what is today Tanzania, immediately south of Kenya, and where fewer settlers lived, the British replacement of the German colonial power in the wake of World War I saved the lives of many Africans, who were oppressed and persecuted substantially more by the German government. There, the British used their might to finally put an end to slavery and embarked on public works projects never seen before or since British colonial rule. Many Africans...