The Busiest Generation- May 27, 2008 Ah, the rituals of American spring: the unpacking of the flip-flops, the exchanging of the snowblowers for the lawn mowers, the first traffic jams on the highway to the beach -- and the annual spate of reports on the stressful lives of high school seniors. Last year, in the months between winter college application deadlines and spring college acceptance letters, the New York Times infamously ran what amounted to a multi-part series on the subject, printing columns and letters with headlines...http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/26/AR2008052601742.html?nav=r... The Hitler Analogy- May 20, 2008 "Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals. . . . We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: 'Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided.' "http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/19/AR2008051902234.html?nav=r... Go Around the Generals- May 13, 2008 They are "cruel, power-hungry and dangerously irrational," in the words of one British journalist. They are " violent and irrational," according to a journalist in neighboring Thailand. Our own State Department leadership has condemned their "xenophobic, ever more irrational policies."http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/12/AR2008051202329.html?nav=r... A Warning Shot From Moscow- May 6, 2008 Before it happened, nobody imagined that the murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo would set off World War I. Before the "shot heard round the world" was fired, I doubt that 18th-century Concord expected to go down in history as the place where the American Revolution began. Before last weekend, when the Russian news agency ITAR-TASS declared that the government of Georgia was about to invade Abkhazia, nobody had really thought about Abkhazia at all. As a public service to readers who..http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/05/AR2008050502067.html?nav=r... |