When President George W. Bush used his State of the Union address to decry U.S. dependence on Middle Eastern oil, he made headlines. Two days later, when Donald Rumsfeld offered an apocalyptic rendering of the global war on terror-“they will either succeed in changing our way of life, or we will succeed in changing theirs”-few paid much attention. In the juxtaposi (...)
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Breaking the Habit
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