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President Bush said on Wednesday for the first time that the United States should "learn from the experience" of countries like Uganda in fighting AIDS and embraced the use of condoms to prevent its spread, a sensitive issue among conservative groups that have fought the adoption of any strategy that does not focus on abstinence.
-- DAVID E. SANGER and DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. for The NY Times
Is it campaign time or what? One wonders what is the life expectancy of this policy promise if Bush wins re-election...
Monk actually loves this responsiveness. Oh, it all may be just a show, jerking us around, but he loves that our leaders have to at least make the gesture that we count, that they have to show they care. (One remembers the story about Bush the Elder, how he once read aloud what was intended to be only a speech direction, to remind him to try to convey the message with his tone and words, and he said, "I care.")
As time goes on, one comes to expect less from the world. It's a saving grace...
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President Bush said on Wednesday for the first time that the United States should "learn from the experience" of countries like Uganda in fighting AIDS and embraced the use of condoms to prevent its spread, a sensitive issue among conservative groups that have fought the adoption of any strategy that does not focus on abstinence.
-- DAVID E. SANGER and DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. for The NY Times
Is it campaign time or what? One wonders what is the life expectancy of this policy promise if Bush wins re-election...
Monk actually loves this responsiveness. Oh, it all may be just a show, jerking us around, but he loves that our leaders have to at least make the gesture that we count, that they have to show they care. (One remembers the story about Bush the Elder, how he once read aloud what was intended to be only a speech direction, to remind him to try to convey the message with his tone and words, and he said, "I care.")
As time goes on, one comes to expect less from the world. It's a saving grace...
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