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Editorials are supposed to provide answers, but this week all we have for you is questions. What in the name of heaven has happened to (1) this country and (2) this generation? In the not too distant past, it was assumed by almost everyone that providing respectable free public education was a central responsibility of government. Not only that, it was taken for granted that citizens would pool their resources using the tax system to provide parks both national and local, art museums, swimming pools, zoos—you name it. When I was growing up in St. Louis and California we had...

BERKELEY — Berkeley blogger Jane Stillwater hasn't even been back from her war correspondent gig in Baghdad for a month, and already she's planning her next trip to Iraq. And this time she is determined to get embedded and see some actual combat in Baghdad's Red Zone, she said Thursday. "When I was there I saw everything inside the Green Zone, but I never got to see combat. You can't see Iraq like that," said Stillwater, 64, of Berkeley. "It's like going to the zoo and not seeing the elephants and lions." A longtime blogger and full-time, self-described peacemaker, Stillwater,...