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Against Brown a week ago, the Crimson exhibited the truth of this axiom, employing a bend-don’t-break defensive mindset to ultimate success. In that game, Harvard held the Bears to three points from inside the red zone five different times and ultimately prevailed in overtime. In contrast, the Mountain Lions did not attempt a field goal all afternoon, finding the endzone every time they ventured inside the Crimson 20-yard line...
Rarely have the inexorable forces of history been so starkly revealed by an exchange between two world leaders. Despite all the public handshakes and smiles, and despite the apparent rapport that emerged between two confident and forceful men last week, they were caught by a stark axiom of the Soviet-American rivalry: neither side can afford to base the security of a nation on trust alone. For 40 years, ever since the earliest days of the cold war, each American President, each Kremlin leader, has felt compelled to counter every move by a countermove, every new weapon with a newer...
Your report on the full-scale assault to take back Fallujah from the insurgents [Nov. 22] reminds me of the Vietnam-era axiom: "We had to destroy the village in order to save it." Although reconstruction is supposed to begin as soon as we pacify the Fallujah cauldron, attempts at such rebuilding in the rest of Iraq have shown that it is impossible to begin the work and spend the budgeted money because of the lack of security for work crews. What contractor on earth would want to undertake such risks to work in Fallujah, the most dangerous place...
...more secure if, instead of spending billions in Iraq, we used the money to secure our borders? David Cohen Wyckoff, New Jersey, U.S. Street Fight in Iraq Your report on the full-scale assault to take back Fallujah from the insurgents [Nov. 22] reminds me of the Vietnam-era axiom: "We had to destroy the village in order to save it." Although reconstruction is supposed to begin as soon as we pacify the Fallujah cauldron, attempts at such rebuilding in the rest of Iraq have shown that it is impossible to begin the work and spend the budgeted money because...
...Street Fight in Iraq Your report on the full-scale assault to take back Fallujah from the insurgents [Nov. 22] reminds me of the Vietnam-era axiom: "We had to destroy the village in order to save it." Although reconstruction is supposed to begin as soon as we pacify the Fallujah cauldron, attempts at such rebuilding in the rest of Iraq have shown that it is impossible to begin the work and spend the budgeted money because of the total lack of security for work crews. What contractor on earth would want to undertake such risks to work in Fallujah...