I Am Confident That The British People

Incivility Is A Symptom, Not The Disease. We've Always Had Partisan Conflict In Congress, And We Always Will. Yet When I Worked For A Year (1970-71) On The Staff Of Sen. Ed Muskie Of Maine, This Was A Different Place, More Collegial, More Sensitive To Data, More Concerned About All Of The American People. I Think Because The For-profit Media Prizes Conflict Above Cooperation And Sound Bites Above Analysis, Politicians Have Learned To Adapt To Those Tendencies. Consequently, Our Public Debates Are Dumbed Down As Our Problems Grow More Complex.

The Sudanese Have Delighted Me, Not Only In Their Generosity And Simplicity, But Also In Their Tendency To Take Tea With Milk And Not To Hesitate To Dunk Biscuits In It. As An Englishman, You Can Imagine The Feeling Of Fraternal Closeness That This Activity Has Generated.

Yet, Much Of What Lies Beneath The Ocean's Surface Remains A Mystery, And Our Nation Continues To Rely On A Confused, Antiquated System Of Ocean Governance.

They Don't Have Special Rights Because We Have Civil Rights Laws That Protect Them. The Laws Work Both Ways.

The Mercury Rule Writers Also Ignored Mercury's Special Qualities