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There are futility metaphors aplenty here: The contrast between the swaggering President and the squabbling Dems. The nonargument over periphera. The absence of an audience. But then, the Democrats have excelled at futility for more than 30 years. They have elected two Presidents during that time, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Both were Governors of Southern states. Neither was a well-known party leader. Neither ran on what many Democrats would consider a traditional--that is, liberal--agenda. Carter was the first born-again Christian President; Clinton once owned a pickup truck with AstroTurf carpeting in the back. Carter...
...past, Castro, 76, managed to neutralize dissidents before they became globally known, like Lech Walesa in Poland or Corazon Aquino in the Philippines. But Paya's celebrity is beginning to rival Castro's. During his visit to Cuba last year, ex-President Jimmy Carter hailed Paya in a speech broadcast to every Cuban household. Paya won the European Union's Sakharov Prize for human rights last December. Vaclav Havel, who led the "velvet revolution" that toppled communism in Czechoslovakia, has nominated Paya for the Nobel Peace Prize. Robert De Niro's Tribeca Film Festival last week canceled its screening...
Chief of MBTA Police Joseph C. Carter spoke about the meaning of being a police officer, and HUPD Sergeant Richard Mederos, who helped train the recruits during their 22 weeks in the academy, offered advice and congratulations...
...speech to the graduates, the MBTA’s Carter stressed that in any police department, officers are connected outside their own community—they are members of an extended family of police officers who are bound by pride, honor and duty to their communities...
...police officers you will form the first line of defense,” Carter said. “Never lose sight of the reasons why, and for whom, you have sworn an oath. You have the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of countless individuals...