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...stupid. I can see the glaciers melting,” Zinni said. “Will we need an Arctic Fleet to compete for resources there? Will new competition for resources elsewhere lead to genocide?” Audience members said they were impressed with the breadth of Zinni’s knowledge. “He has a good grasp of the world,” said Daniel G. West ’09, a midshipman in the Marines ROTC. “I liked his idea that we use soft and hard power to achieve foreign policy goals...
...momentum has shifted in this race," said David Axelrod, Obama's chief strategist, declaring Super Tuesday a "crystal clear" victory for Obama. "Obviously, [the Clinton campaign] have some things that they are going to point to, but in terms of the breadth of Senator Obama's appeal, winning in every region as he did, competing as strongly as he did coming from as far behind as he has nationally is quite an achievement...
...very enthusiastic” about the material that he teaches. Sorensen lauded Shelby’s ability to cross departmental boundaries, saying that he “is equally welcome in the Philosophy and African American studies department,” and that his breadth as a scholar had made him attractive to many other schools. “He had offers from other universities and for a while we were nervous that he wouldn’t stay,” she said. Before his time at Harvard, Shelby was an assistant professor of philosophy at Ohio State University...
Please! At least at venerable old Barings no one tried to make such claims after Leeson blew the place up. One of the scariest things about the current global credit meltdown is that we still don't know the depth and breadth of the losses. Indeed, banks don't even know how to value a lot of the paper on their books these days. What we, and they, do know is that ordinary young traders can see their positions go south and are liable to panic and mess up in ways that keep pushing the decimal point over...
...Instruction, “every Harvard graduate should be broadly educated, as well as trained in a particular academic specialty or concentration.” This seems to bode well for the incipient conversational Dark Ages. But wait! This broad education “does not define intellectual breadth as the mastery of a set of Great Books, or the digestion of a specific quantum of information, or the surveying of current knowledge in certain fields.” Instead, the Core is about “approaches to knowledge.” It teaches students “what...