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...from the conservatives by "saying it stands up more independently for the Australian point of view," says Peter Edwards, a historian of the alliance at the University of New South Wales/Australian Defence Force Academy. "A Coalition government will express disagreement with the U.S. on various issues, but they will tend not to let the differences get too public. A Labor government would let it be known from time to time, in a carefully calibrated way, that they disagreed with the Americans on this or that issue just to show they were sticking up for the national interest...
Packages dating back to the second week of September can still be found wedged between boxes. And especially during the peak hours at noon and before closing at 4 p.m., people tend to displace the numerically-ordered parcels when searching for their own, making it a burden for subsequent searchers...
...schools? About 31% of the nation's middle and high schoolers are subjected to a daily news program called Channel One, which is mandatory viewing. If your school has signed on for this, it's a 10-minute broadcast, plus two minutes of overt advertising. The products they advertise tend to be junk food, violent movies--a questionable set of products. There are schools that accept advertising on their buses, on their walls...
Reality, unfortunately, is stingy with outspoken political heroes. Mavericks tend to lose, even compelling ones like John McCain. There is a reason for that: inconvenient truths are inconvenient to someone. And passion can be scary. McCain's assault on Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell cost him dearly in the 2000 campaign. Howard Dean's anger was causing him to lose altitude long before he screamed. Which is why politicians have concocted an entire industry--the polling and consulting wizardocracy--devoted to telling them what not to say. From Merlin to Rove, the most powerful adviser has been...
...During a brief lull, a Marine in a house near the now disabled vehicles runs into the street and pulls a boy from the truck, carrying him over his shoulder back into the house. Inside, four Marines tend to the sobbing boy, who has been shot in the shin and is calling out in Arabic, which no one understands. "Why don't they hit the brakes?" says one Marine to no one in particular. "I think we killed that kid's dad," says another. A truck approaches but warning shots turn it around. "Tell them to stop all traffic...