Steve Coll New Yorker Article April 14 2008 selected passage: "The suppression of professional military dissent helped to create the disaster in Iraq; now it is depriving American voters of an election-year debate about the defense issues that matter most.

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The book helps people understand the holistic management process and how it can be applied in the development of personal and domestic goals, specifically addressing family/household issues and interests.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080502/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_iraq_funding Decision making and leadership at its worst. 80 billion for next year war, build infrastructure in another country? Or build infrastructure in U.S.? Compare it to the 125 million approved

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"The problem with ideology is if you got an ideology, you already got your mind made up, you know all the answers, and that makes evidence irrelevant and argument a waste of time, so you tend to govern by assertion and attack. The problem with that is that

Selected comments:... If you ask a US-based activist the most important technical development of the past five years, they’ll likely tell you about t he rise of citizen media , the use of blogs and web community sites to disseminate information, organize e