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...memoirs, McNamara reaches the conclusion that many Americans already had more than 25 years ago. The war was not against a Communist monolith directed by the Kremlin but against a nationalist government willing to bleed itself white to defeat an "imperialist" aggressor. McNamara now admits that the U.S. can and should have withdrawn at the earliest possible opportunity...
...played really well and kept our poise at some times that we haven't in the past," coach Frank Sullivan said. "We were the aggressor tonight...
...Crimson was about to go on a power play 4:37 into the third period, when a Harvard forward lost his cool and retaliated against his Dartmouth aggressor. The result--a penalty on both sides and an even-strength four-on-four situation...
With four minutes remaining in the second period and Harvard on a power play while down 5-1, Martins took one for the team. Although he received a minor, he goaded his B.C. aggressor into four minutes in penalties, giving Harvard a two-man advantage on which they capitalized at both ends...
Clever Michael Crichton understood all that when he wrote his best seller Disclosure. That's why he made the aggressor a female executive, her victim a happily married man who has been passed over for her job--and with whom, a decade earlier, she had a hot affair. The role reversal alone gives the story some curiosity value. It may even be, as people connected with the movie version keep insisting in interviews, that the shoe-on-the-other-foot approach to this situation will Make You Think...