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...Heartland Heartache Michael Grunwald suggested five steps to "help get America back on track" [Nov. 17]. May I suggest a sixth: Democrats and Republicans must put an end to partisan politics and work together to heal our nation. Most Americans are tired of the self-serving games that strangle progress. Nancy Turner, Gardner, Massachusetts...
Still, more needs to be done. Europe is not an island, and even judged by the narrowest tests of self-interest, it has an abiding need to ensure that its neighbors can savor the same peace and prosperity that Europeans now enjoy. From that logic of geography should flow two pressing priorities of European strategic policy: closer engagement with Russia and with Turkey. Both nations feel aggrieved at their treatment by Europe, Russia because (in breach of promises made in the early 1990s) NATO was extended not just to the borders of the old Soviet Union but actually inside them...
Born in Ealing in west London and self-taught on the drums, Mitchell was 18 when he met Hendrix and bass player Noel Redding (who died in 2003). In 1967, the three put out their first album, Are You Experienced? Driven by Jimi's incendiary guitar-playing and a heady mix of blues and psychedelic rock 'n' roll, the band soon skyrocketed to fame. But turmoil brought on by unending touring and drug binges unraveled the trio after just three years...
...First Family--elect may represent a big social shift, but their retro, TV Land ordinariness helped get America comfortable with Dad. Quipping with 60 Minutes' Steve Kroft, Barack and Michelle echoed not J.F.K. and Jackie but rather Rob and Laura Petrie--she, the amiably needling supporter; he, the self-deprecatingly put-upon hubby joking about Michelle's asking him to take the girls to school the morning after the election. This fall, on every channel, it's Meet the Obamas! (Or: At Least 52.7% of Everybody Loves Barack.) (See pictures of Michelle Obama meeting Hillary Clinton...
...general, I consider myself an optimist. Really, I do. But this Dartmouth team, in all its absurd awfulness, has rocked my faith in humanity and in the Hobbesian principle that the first law of human nature is self-interest...