Captain Richard Phillips of the good ship Maersk Alabama - and Sully Sullenberger splashing down his crippled airliner in the Hudson River - broke through the poisonous smog of economic depression and Wall Street skullduggery with a reminder that pure individual heroism is a daily occurrence if we know where to look for it.
タグ: river, depression, daily, good

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Obamacare is the wildly complex Rube Goldberg contraption it is because getting the legislation through Congress required so many political tradeoffs and so many unavoidable deals with so many vested interests. But that's no excuse.
タグ: because, congress, through, political
I haven't spent years, like Alyse Nelson of Vital Voices, toiling for female economic empowerment on five continents.
タグ: years, economic, empowerment, like
Politicians have always been required to be fake, but now the career havoc wrought by a stray, flying sound bite means they have to sustain their fakeness all the time.
タグ: flying, always, fake, time
Servility always curdles into rage in the end.
タグ: rage, in-the-end, end, always
The women of Afghanistan, left behind as their men fought, did what the women of World War II did - used their wits and resourcefulness to preserve some semblance of civilization.
タグ: men, world, war, women
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