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Building decent, liberal societies requires strengthening parts of the U.S. government that don't carry guns. While our military patrols the world, our embassies increasingly cower behind barbed wire, disconnected from the societies they need to understand and help. America doesn't need to abandon the fervor that five years ago helped propel us into a disastrous war; we need to redirect it. Muscular moralism has had its day. The test now is whether we can effectively separate the two--carrying a big stick for self-defense but using less blunt instruments to improve the world...
...foolish. A week later, Cassandra decorated our kitchen with a large green compost bin--which, I may point out, is clearly made of plastic--and told me to throw all kinds of stuff in there. This stuff would then sit in our kitchen. Rotting. I was starting to understand that there are reasons besides shunning deodorant that hippies smell...
...members which provides males a space and permission to voice their support of ending sexual violence.HMAR also educates its members how to fight misconceptions about sexual assault and even how to intercede as bystanders, Rankin said. “A lot of guys want to do those things and understand the need for them,” she said, “but maybe don’t know how to do them.”“It’s extremely essential that people understand that men are combatting this issue,” said Schwartz...
...Second Team. “That’s a big loss—I miss him,” Walsh says. “The reason he’s not here at Harvard, I’m not in agreement with it, but I understand it. Losing him...is going to be real tough.”With the loss of Perlman, the fourth spot opened for players like Strangio and Cole. Another player that Walsh thought had a serious shot at becoming a starter was flame-throwing freshman Greg Malley, whose fastball clocks in at over...
...Wright's sermons became a campaign issue). He didn't explain why he stayed, but by trying to show black and white resentment as the backdrop for Wright's comments, Obama suggested that his response to controversy isn't to walk out of the room but to try to understand what's fueling the fire. He also drew a distinction between political advice and spiritual guidance, arguing that many Americans know what it's like to disagree with something their pastor or priest or rabbi says...