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...house. In the next song, "Just the Two of Us," Myles McDonnell's solid male lead and Dawn Yip's oozing, soulful female lead turned a potentially boring song into a pleasurable experience. And the Veritones' signature song--"Ride My Harley," a spiritual gone astray--was spunky and assumed an absurd dimension with Blasko Ristic's hilarious male soprano...
Even with the purest motives, the media have been led astray by an irreconcilable variety of expert opinion. Stories based on Air Force sources have tended to be more upbeat about what air strikes alone could accomplish; stories based on Army sources have naturally tended to emphasize the importance of ground troops. From mid-August to mid-January, best-case scenarios abounded of a two-week air war, with U.S. dead no more than a few hundred. They were offered by White House, Pentagon and Congressional officials, who sought to buoy public support yet not make it so contingent...
...doubt remained that orthodoxy was fighting back, it was dispelled by the views aired at an angry Jan. 31 party plenum. Speeches by Central Committee members roundly knocked perestroika as a policy gone astray, attacked freedom of the press and condemned the Kremlin leadership's abandonment of Marxist principles in favor of "bourgeois morality." These Communists made it plain they were not about to give way to a multiparty system. The entire tone of the gathering suggested a council of war, and there were no recorded disagreements by Mikhail Gorbachev. A few days later, the Soviet President took...
Trainor and other policy analysts, notibly Walburg Professor of Economics emeritus John Kenneth Galbraith, say that policy makers' inattention to military history and scholarship has led them astray. For instance, Galbraith and Trainor both say the Administration is relying too heavily on the use of air power against the enemy--a tactic that proved largely ineffective during World War II and Vietnam...
Throughout the discussion, the tutor only interjects when directly asked a question by a student or when it seems that students have a mistaken assumption that is leading them astray. The tutor is often a leading expert in his field and can offer information on the most current research, some of which he may have written...