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• While we're at it.(The Public Square: A Continuing Survey of Religion, Culture, and Public Life)(memorial service for Jaroslav Pelikan, John Henry Newman, Thomas Friedman)

  - 2007-01-01

  * At the memorial service for Jaroslav Pelikan at Yale University, there was Bach organ-music and reflections by Yale's president Richard Levin and by James Billington, Librarian of Congress. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma played Bach's Suite No. 6 in D Major, followed by readings from Dostoevsky and...

  Tags: Benefits, Church, church, HEALTHCARE, Iraq, Mary, Peterson, priest, SOFTWARE, survey, Transportation, upshot, women, Yale University

• Known and unknown dangers

  - 2006-03-22

  LOOKING BEYOND the "usual suspects for global mischief-making, there are potential crises that could both truly surprise us in 2006 and prove enormously disruptive to our interests and well-being. Three profoundly different states offer an aperture into what could become nasty and dangerous surprises. Only one--Iraq--is an obvious candidate. Nigeria...

  Tags: Government, Iraq, Nigeria, SOFTWARE, U.S., U.S. Congress, upshot

• What if he wins?

  - 2004-09-01

  The Triumph of Anything Goes By David Greenberg We all know that George W. Bush's reelection would probably bring about more illiberal policies regarding social justice, education, the arts, economic fairness, environmental protection, consumer rights, racial equality, foreign policy, civil liberties, and workers' rights. Less obvious, but perhaps...

  Tags: administration, America, Bush, Democrat, Democratic Party, FINANCE, Government, Iraq, Kerry, Preemption, president, Republican, Taxes, U.S. Congress, upshot, Vengeance

• About-Face in Iraq

  - 2003-11-24

  Paul Bremer's job sounds straightforward, at least. It is to transform Iraq from a dangerous muddle into a democratic model. But last week the dapper career diplomat got a faceful of Iraqi democracy, laced with a lot of smoke and cordite, from the very Governing Council he created and once...

  Tags: administration, Bush, democracy, Iraq, occupation, Saddam, U.S., upshot, White House

• Should Hezbollah Be Next?

  - 2003-11-01

  THE A TEAM On September 20, 2001, in a historic speech to a joint session of Congress, President George W. Bush famously declared, "Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach...

  Tags: al-Qaeda, Arab, attack, Government, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, SECURITY, Syria, U.S., upshot