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...national identity is complex and contentious, often the subject of longwinded debates in American history circles. Some pundits say the United States suffers from a cultural divide. Americans don't have a common culture, they say; the American people comprise too many different cultures and possess too little national sentiment to sustain a single perspective (or even a single song). Certainly, something of what I've seen among my fellow Americans in Spain supports this argument. We come from very different communities; we represent different regions and ethnicities and viewpoints. My own perspective as an Asian-American male from...
...hearings like this, there's a lot of second-guessing and it's unpleasant," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "But it should be: people died." Extending the Khobar fence might have helped to prevent the attack, he adds, but the measure would hardly have addressed growing anti-American sentiment in the region. "The bad guys always find a way to hit you at your weakest point. The attack would simply have been executed differently." Even so, Thompson says, several military personnel in charge of security are likely to receive letters of reprimand that will effectively end their military careers...
...Wisconsin, said last week. Fennig's son, Technical Sergeant Patrick P. Fennig, 34, an F-15 crew chief, was killed in the explosion at the Khobar Towers compound. "None of us," Fennig said, "have a problem with the mission." The families of other service members who died echoed that sentiment, and U.S. officials insisted that the act of terror would not deter the U.S. from fulfilling its mission in Saudi Arabia and around the Persian Gulf. In the aftermath of last week's deaths, however, it is appropriate to ask what exactly that mission is and whether...
...inevitably the nation's No. 1 political boss. Yet he is, at the same time, if not in the same breadth, the leader of public opinion. Those who administer our physical life, also administer our spiritual life. He is, in Woodrow Wilson's words, "the spokesman for the real sentiment and purpose of the country." He is thought of by people as a combination of scoutmaster, Delphic oracle, hero of the silver screen and father of the multitudes. The framers of the Constitution took a momentous step when they fused the dignity of a king and the power...
...speech to the annual meeting of the Alumni Association on the afternoon of Commencement Day, Varmus addressed the discontent on campus surrounding his selection as Commencement speaker. He discussed the widespread sentiment within the senior class that his Nobel-winning discovery of cancer-causing oncogenes did not make him "exciting" enough to speak at a Harvard graduation...