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...feel-good” brand of service really worse than action motivated by genuine desire to help others? Should motives really matter so long as service gets done...
...insurance problems, called by Ohio's Democratic governor, Ted Strickland. "It was very emotional," Hughes remembered, "very upsetting." And so Hughes decided to pay for the insurance of the three families who seemed most desperate. "You want to see this problem fixed on the national level, but sometimes immediate action is needed," Hughes told me during a Sunday-morning visit to a pancake house in Marion with Governor Strickland 10 days before the Ohio primary. Strickland is supporting Hillary Clinton, but Hughes is undecided-which, in Ohio, means that he'd like to vote for Barack Obama but needs...
...going to have to be truthful and precise. They haven't been on NAFTA, the relatively peripheral trade deal that both Clinton and Obama-formerly equivocal supporters-have made the symbol for the loss of manufacturing jobs. But shutting off free trade won't heal Ohio. Aggressive government action might. That is real change on the horizon, the real choice this year...
...Turkish government seemed unmoved by the Iraqi cabinet's statement on Tuesday condemning Turkey's incursion as a "violation of Iraqi sovereignty" and a "unilateral military action." The Turkish military sent ground troops into northern Iraq last Thursday to take on guerrillas of the Kurdistan Workers' Party...
Spurred to action by the defeat of his constitutional referendum last December, Chavez is tackling the problem aggressively for the first time since he took office nine years ago. He says businesses have been hoarding goods until they can be sold at higher prices. In the last two months, he's created a new food distribution company, increased government controls and made overt threats to private business, including the nation's largest food producer and distributor, Polar...