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...Despite his many failures, he always appeared to be 100 percent certain that his own ideas were always right," Walt said. "One would have thought that experience would have taught him a bit of humility, but if it ever came to him, it came very late. There was a tendency to constantly be prescribing advice, and it would have been easier to take if the track record had been more successful...
...Nevertheless, others regard McNamara's legacy more favorably. Jack P. Ruina, an MIT professor who worked under McNamara as Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency, said he was a "great admirer of [McNamara's]" even though he was "a little bit like a machine." And Graham T. Allison, a former dean of the Kennedy School and now director of the Belfer Center, noted in an e-mailed statement that President Kennedy regarded McNamara as his "most valued counselor" during the potentially disastrous Cuban Missile Crisis...
...Daily Telegraph's monthlong series on British parliamentarians' use of taxpayer money to pay off personal expenses - from building a duck pond to cleaning a moat - the political classes may sense an opportunity to turn the tables on the British press and thereby redeem themselves, at least a bit. (See the top 10 most outrageous British expense claims...
...point during the campaign you said Hillary Clinton whines a little bit too much about being in the public eye. Do you now sort of sympathize with her? What I said was, it doesn't do her or anybody else any good to whine about the criticism. And that's why I'm trying to make it clear that the criticism, I invite that. But freedom of speech and that invitation to constructively criticize a public servant is a lot different than the allowance to lie, to continually falsely accuse a public servant when they have proven over and over...
...think when we look at coin requirements, you can't ignore it, and you can't assume it's wrong, but the coin requirements have never been an absolute cookie cutter. We are using some additional technology here, ISR [Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance], which gives us a little bit more ability to cover more terrain. And we don't have the insurgency in all parts of the country, so if you go square miles of the number of populace, it's really not at the same levels in most of the country. It's primarily in the south...