Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pentagon's top brass have declined to release the studies because they are "politically embarrassing," according to officials familiar with their contents. TIME has obtained the written summary of a briefing by Pentagon analyst Michele Flournoy -- labeled SENSITIVE: CLOSE HOLD for its obvious, though oblique, criticism of the Clinton Administration -- that details flawed U.S. decision making. "You can't see this presentation on the lessons of Somalia," a White House official says, "and not worry that we're about to make many of the same mistakes in Haiti." TIME has also read portions of a second after-action report, conducted...
...double up as peacekeepers until support personnel arrive -- a messier scenario. Clinton also has not canceled plans to attend a major fund raiser in California Sunday, he adds, an unlikely place from which to supervise an invasion. On the flip side, holding off until Tuesday to ensure the military brass's "clockwork operation" exposes Clinton to a possible rebuke from Congress: TIME correspondent J.F.O. McAllister says a resolution vote could be organized as early as Monday night...
...unfair tactic in the sexual-harassment wars should look at the 10-inch file in the Hansen case, and at the fact that it took the intervention of three members of Congress -- Senator Paul Wellstone and Representative Bruce Vento in addition to Durenberger -- to get the Navy brass to pay attention. Durenberger told TIME last week that the Navy still hasn't given him an unedited report on the Hansen case: "I'm not one to put a hold on anything, but I didn't have any choice but to use Arthur. The way the Navy has handled the Hansen...
This has meant a logistical nightmare for U.S. forces. The American forward base at Entebbe in Uganda, 300 miles from Goma, had only one international phone line for communication with top brass in Europe and the U.S. The disorganization, lack of fuel and congestion at all central African airports grounded many planes meant to ferry relief supplies. "There are all these aircraft sitting here, and the military just milling around," observed one of at least a dozen relief workers trying unsuccessfully to reach Goma from Entebbe last week. Several U.S. military flights that did make it as far as Goma...
...first symphony seems to me a bit lacking in the quality for which early critics dubbed it "Beethoven's Tenth Symphony." For example, at the moment of maximum dramatic impact, the brass chorale before the final coda in the last movement, Haitink plows right on through, almost as if anxious to leave it behind him. Brahms delayed writing this symphony for over 20 years, fearing that he would forever remain in the shadow of Beethoven. However, it seems here that Haitink might be the one who feels himself in the shadows of the great symphonists...