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...House Majority Leader Tom DeLay announced in an Austin courtroom five months ago that he was moving on to a new stage in his life and then sashayed out of the courthouse with that ever-present grin, he left voters in his district in a whirl of confusion and anger. DeLay told TIME he thought he could do more for the conservative cause outside Congress, but that still left his constituents with lots of unanswered questions...
...defense is not foreign policy anymore, it's domestic. President Bush declared a state of emergency and called up the reserves; Congress wrote a $40 billion check. Soldiers at home and around the world were on high alert, and ready. "This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger," the President said. "This conflict was begun on the timing and terms of others. It will end in a way and at an hour of our choosing." But it 1945-1955 The decade after 1945 saw jubilation at the arrival of peace, and anxiety as the Cold War took shape...
...first glance, it seems as though we might have reached the point where our leaders’ plight has become so pathetic that they are no longer demagogues who provoke our anger, but tragic figures that engender our sympathy. These characters’ actions are too destructive to be completely sympathetic, leading toward a more cynical interpretation. Humanity is inevitably going to produce human leaders who will provoke terrible consequences, usually due to their mistaken assumptions regarding the necessary actions to preserve their rule...
...doesn't mean that you don't have doubts, or that you relinquish your hold on this world. Long before it became fashionable among television evangelists, the typical black sermon freely acknowledged that all Christians (including the pastors) could expect to still experience the same greed, resentment, lust, and anger that everyone else experienced. The gospel songs, the happy feet, and the tears and shouts all spoke of a release, an acknowledgment, and finally a channeling of those emotions. In the black community, the lines between sinner and saved were more fluid; the sins of those who came to church...
...enough voters away from Chavez to give opposition candidate Manuel Rosales a genuine chance at beating the heavily favored incumbent in December. The protesters outside the ministry are proof that widespread popularity of the government's social development programs that provide cheap food and free health care outweigh most anger over housing. They were there to decry their hardships and to berate the housing minister for not delivering new houses. But interspersed with those chants they hollered, "Long live Chavez...