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They will spend the next ten or twenty years in a fruitless quest to validate their victory in the 116th. It is a stifling burden, destined to build into a gnawing obsession and transform Yale's now-proud Bulldogs into pitiful, aged mutts...
Consider that during the first 25 years of the nuclear age, five countries tested nuclear weapons. In the 29 years since, two, India and Pakistan, have joined the list. Knowledge about how to build nuclear arms has spread, but far fewer nations than we once predicted are acting on that knowledge...
Obviously, agreements do not erase the need for a powerful military deterrent, but they do establish rules that increase the chance that our deterrent will succeed in preventing war. They complicate efforts by potential adversaries to develop and build nuclear weapons. They provide for wide-ranging verification systems that complement our own monitoring capabilities. And they make it more likely that others will join us in a common response against those who break the rules...
Gates: Should government regulators take away our ability to build what's called Windows? Should they be able to say, "We kind of like this feature, and we don't like this one"? Then if you have 50 new features, you'd end up with 2-to-the-50th-power new versions...
...them with material they've seen a hundred times before. Each of his works has its own cult following--but they all have the same distinct flavor. Just as he adores the monster movies of the '40s and '50s, directors years from now will adore Burton's work and build upon it as he has done with his own idols, securing Burton's cinematic legacy...