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...medieval quality to eternal advisers like Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Andrew Card, Karl Rove, Condoleezza Rice. You can picture them in velvet robes, whispering in the Prince's ear, in a 15th century Venetian tableau. Their loyalty to the family is impeccable, which is what seems to matter most to the Prince?more than the national interest, in some cases...
...class children can escape their self-perpetuating cycle. "If you have a child that is malnourished and who then loses more weight through diarrhea, and tries to make it up, but never makes it up because he is weak and has another episode of diarrhea, then it doesn't matter how well-off the parents are," he says. "That is a child who is on the road to death." ICDDR spends $20 million a year treating up to 150,000 patients, its budget financed mostly by grants from the government, international aid agencies and charities. At an average cost...
...Catch a Predator" culture is not what forced Foley out of office, and the possibility that Republicans enabled or covered up for him would be a scandal in any media age. But how big and broad an effect the scandal has on voters--that is very much a matter of how scared parents have become. It's the difference between "The G.O.P. leadership messed up in a sex scandal" and "The G.O.P. leadership went soft on one of those monsters who are out there waiting to prey on my kids...
...Great--a critic got a taste of his own medicine [Sept. 25]. But I read on and found out Grossman had experienced the cyberslander that is so prevalent in Internet blogging. Unfortunately, the Internet has allowed anyone with a computer to pretend to be an expert on anything. No matter how uninformed, unintelligent or unrestrained people may be, they can declare themselves authorities and everyone else complete idiots. Since our society loves sensationalism over substance, such ranting gets more attention than legitimate literature. So maybe the bloggers are right after all. Perhaps trying to produce a thoughtful, responsible opinion makes...
...Americans, Washington is a giant cesspool. It's no wonder almost half of Americans (47%) now agree with the statement "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore." It's us (the people) versus them (the politicians), and it doesn't matter what primary color you wear. Just as in the closing scene of George Orwell's Animal Farm, even when you look closely, you can't tell the difference between the animals and the people anymore...