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...Strivers manifest a truly breathtaking mastery of the material and the system. They apportion their time wisely, assess the importance of reading materials correctly, digest their subject...
...years ago. He researched his doctoral thesis in Hanol, North Vietnam's capital, in 1953, at the conclusion of the anti-colonial revolution. He returned for two weeks in 1962, as a faculty member of the Cambodian Royal Institute of Administration, and is thus in a position to assess the accomplishments of the Communists from personal experience. "As a matter of hard fact, the Communists have done a good job; they have turned North Vietnam into the only industrialized country in southeast Asia," Fall said...
...King is discussing with his staff the advisability of immediately conducting a study to assess the situation...
...jury of eight men and four women had filed somberly into the courtroom a little after noon. Judge Brown read their verdict: "We, the jury, find the defendant guilty of murder with malice and assess the penalty at death." Ruby stared at the jury, bit his lip, then scuttled impassively out of the room behind a phalanx of sheriff's officers. But his attorney, barrel-chested Melvin Belli, was thunderstruck. He leaped to his feet, shouting, "Don't worry, Jack! We'll appeal this and take it out of Dallas...
Each government tried to make propaganda capital out of the perfidy of the other. Hastily assembling a delegation of foreign correspondents, India raced them to relief camps in Assam, where 50,000 Hindus and Christians had fled to escape Moslem persecution, arson, and murder. It was not easy to assess the accuracy of all the atrocity stories being handed the press. One group said that it had been machine-gunned by Pakistani border guards as it tried to cross the frontier; the original claim of 200 refugees killed in the slaughter was later downgraded to two. The Pakistanis could retort...