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When Greatness Slips Away
As we become increasingly accustomed to helplessness, the greatness of the United States is steadily disappearing.
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McChrystal Is Summoned to Washington Over Remarks
In a magazine article, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top commander in Afghanistan, was portrayed as openly contemptuous of some senior members of the Obama administration.
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Let the Pill Go Free
The pill remains part of women’s contraception needs, but its usefulness has been limited because it’s available only by prescription.
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In Law Schools, Grades Go Up, Just Like That
In the last two years, at least 10 law schools have made their grading systems more lenient to give their students a better chance in a soft job market.
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Blow Up the Well to Save the Gulf
President Obama should let the Navy take control of the oil spill.
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In a Michelangelo Fresco, Visions of a Brain Stem
A new study concludes that “The Separation of Light From Darkness,” at the Sistine Chapel, conceals a drawing of the underside of the brain and the brain stem.
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Faustus Makes a Deal
From the confluence of recent events, one might think the Democrats had made a deal with the Devil — and still managed to lose.
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A Bruise on the First Amendment
The Supreme Court has preserved a vague prohibition on aiding and associating with terrorist groups, reducing the First Amendment rights of Americans.
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McChrystal Is Summoned to Washington Over Remarks
McChrystal is already guilty of war crimes through his tolerance of torture at Baghdad's "Camp Nama." His system of vast targeted assassination of local leaders of Afghani tribal elements is another case of attempting to pacify a population by eradicating it, or at least its entire leadership element. Such quasi-genocide must be met with the degree of contempt it deserves. The Soviet quagmire in Afghanistan cost a brutal toll in lives, both Soviet and Afghani, and left a puppet ruler who was immediately strung up and removed of his gonads by the remnant population upon Soviet withdrawal. It will take generations of repayments and fair dealing with the Afghani people to build any semblance of trust. Each day we there compounds the tragedy. For an immediate, total, and complete withdrawal of all occupying forces from Aghanistan, payment of reparations and aide, and tribunals for prosecution of all elements of American leadership, up to and including the president, for perpetuating this crime against humanity. Such will only be possible by a socialist restructing of society and an independent political mobilization of working people against the Obama administration and the profit interests of the corporations (the real source of militarism). The only party with any credibility to stand in this role is the Socialist Equality Party. They stand against both the Democrats and Republicans in their slavery to corporate and profit interests, and for the interests of peace and prosperity for the international working classes.
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As Law Takes Effect, Obama Gives Insurers a Warning
The president plans to warnexecutives on Tuesday against raising rates steeply in anticipation of tighter regulations under the new health care law.
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Rivane Neuenschwander’s Playful but Serious Art
Games with the viewer figure heavily in art by Rivane Neuenschwander at the New Museum on the Bowery.
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Amazon and Barnes & Noble Cut E-Reader Prices
Barnes & Noble said it would drop the price of the Nook to $199. Responding rapidly, Amazon.com cut the price of its popular Kindle e-reader below the Nook, to $189.
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Poll Finds Deep Concern About Energy and Economy
Respondents to a New York Times/CBS News poll said President Obama did not have a clear jobs plan and were impatient with his response to the oil spill.
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Judge Blocks Deep-Water Drilling Moratorium
The White House said it would appeal the decision of a federal judge in New Orleans, who blocked a six-month moratorium on deep-water drilling projects.
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