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Shortly after Thanksgiving, President Barack Obama is expected to announce the way forward for the United States in Afghanistan. There is no simple solution, but it is clear that a radical rethink of our effort is needed. Nothing about Afghanistan has ever been easy. For millennia, it’s been the graveyard of empires. It has not changed.
With a mixture of wit, charm and excellent advice, Michael Kaiser this week challenged Kansas City to improve its already vibrant arts scene. It’s a worthy challenge. Kaiser, the president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, spoke to several hundred regional arts supporters gathered at the Lyric Theatre. And Kaiser knows the local arts turf, having reversed the fortunes of the Kansas City Ballet in the 1980s.
The whole phenomenon of Sarah Palin, I admit, is a mystery to me. She has built a large following. She has powerful supporters in talk radio. She is incontestably sincere. She is driven and gutsy. In Alaska, she took on the old bulls in her own party and won. For many, she embodies that strain of populism that believes an ordinary person, plucked from obscurity, can sometimes do extraordinary things.
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