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...would be in policies ranging from the Monroe Doctrine to the Marshall Plan, they were the warp and woof of a sturdy foreign policy. And when countries such as France felt that the soft suasion of idealism was lacking, as has recently been the case, it proved harder to attract them to a cause. "America's great historical moments," historian Bernard Bailyn has noted, "have occurred when realism and idealism have been combined, and no one knew this better than Franklin...
...industry - scramble for a bigger share of the bridal business. Wedding planners report that the trend is also catching on in Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium, with couples heading to the sunnier climes of southern Europe to exchange vows. Long-haul locales like the Caribbean or Las Vegas attract plenty of couples, but for larger weddings - 150 guests is about as big as destination weddings get - couples are more likely to remain closer to home. "It's less a case of getting married on a beach in the Caribbean these days," says Vikki Berg, travel editor at Brides magazine...
...fits very well with our own mission to attract highly qualified international students to Harvard,” he said...
...weeks into the war in Iraq, the maid realized something was up when her boss, Saddam Hussein's nephew, told her to bone up on a Tikriti accent so that she wouldn't attract attention as a Baghdadi when the family moved north. Two days later, she says, she found herself in a convoy of cars with Saddam's sons Uday and Qusay, headed for a rendezvous in Tikrit, Saddam's hometown, with the Iraqi dictator. The 18-year-old woman, who spoke to TIME on condition of anonymity, was a live-in employee of Farhan Ibrahim Migdal al-Dolaymi...
After beginning his coaching career at a school that is regarded as one of the toughest in the nation to attract players, Sneddon is moving on to a scholarship school in a largely non-scholarship league that has struggled in recent years but has a strong tradition and nationwide name recognition...