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...drums, adding to the fever. The protestors, who seem to delight in making mountains out of molehills, have one thing right: It sure feels good to have a cause to rally behind. Yet watching college students put their bodies on the line for unionized security guards who make almost twice the minimum wage—and equal to the Cambridge-decreed living wage—it’s hard not to feel as though the real point of the protest is masturbatory. After all, a hunger strike is not just a publicity stunt, but a good way to transform...
...Winkler also hopes to be a shoo-in for the shot put and discus at the Beijing trials in 2008. He has been to the Colorado camp twice, this past session to help motivate newly injured servicemen and women. "My thought process is, someone helped me at one time, so if you can just help one person, you've accomplished a lot." And he has. Already a champion at several regional competitions, Winkler has set his sights high for Beijing: "I want to be going for the world record, or just win a gold...
...attends. It's obvious the minute the doors open. Waiting in the bright, airy reception area are six advocate-counselors, or ACs. Each counsels 25 or so kids, whom they greet individually, often with elaborate, personalized handshakes or fist pounds. These close relationships are cemented by daily meetings and twice-weekly group sessions. When any of the school's 150 students fail to show up in the morning, the AC makes a phone call to find out why. Freddie Perez, 17, compares this with the check-in procedure at the big high school he used to attend: "I'd swipe...
Americans have gone to the polls four times in the past century with troops fighting in the field. Twice, things seemed to be going well or reasonably well, and the incumbents were re-elected (F.D.R. in 1944, Bush in 2004). Twice, the wars were not going well, and the incumbent party lost (Korea in 1952, with Harry Truman choosing not to run and Dwight Eisenhower beating Adlai Stevenson; and Vietnam in 1968, with Lyndon Johnson withdrawing and Richard Nixon beating Hubert Humphrey...
Given the apparently abundant supply of women martyrs--willing or not--it is remarkable that suicide attacks against Israelis have been so infrequent in recent years. In March 2002, for instance, militants carried out twice as many suicide bombings as they did all last year. An Israeli law-enforcement officer attributes the drop to "Shin Bet, the fence and God"--but not to any change of heart by the extremists. In fact, renegades from Hamas, by far the largest and most organized Palestinian group, appear intent on restarting suicide missions, motivated partly by the refusal of the international community...