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...Playing a greater role, perhaps, is the odd world that contemporary astronauts inhabit. The first astronauts were a disciplined bunch, but they were also test pilots. That meant that-with the exception of the well-mannered John Glenn-they spent their time enjoying the good whiskey, fast cars and plentiful women befitting their celebrity status. Back then NASA called these things high jinks and looked the other way. "The country needed heroes, so a myth was created," says Burrows. "NASA didn't go public with these matters...
...Casey because they have no one else to be mad at. Rumsfeld is gone, Abizaid and Schoonmaker are leaving; Cheney is lodged, limpet-like, in the West Wing, awaiting his turn in the Libby trial. But taking down Casey for the conduct of a war that a bunch of guys in ties ordered the Army to prosecute under now-infamous limitations is certainly as perverse as what the Democrats are up to here. And it fits with the growing neoconservative critique of the war at the moment: it was not the idea that was wrong - it was how the generals...
...reduced the U.S.'s leverage in the region, emboldened Iran and alienated the U.S.'s traditional Sunni allies. "They've been reticent to provide real support," says Kenneth Pollack of the Brookings Institution. "They think we've created a government that is nothing but a façade for a bunch of vicious Shi'i militias." Rice told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last month that the Iraqi government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is on "borrowed time." Rice says now that "Iraqis will have to decide whether their government is functioning. But that's not for us to decide...
...qualifiers. It worked out really well.” Injuries plagued the Harvard women’s track teams, however, as several athletes, including sophomore Shannon Flahive, were unable to compete. “Basically, we couldn’t score a lot of points because a bunch of events we didn’t have anyone competing in,” sophomore Becky Christensen said. “So Brown and Cornell are off getting all the points for events we aren’t running. If we don’t have anyone in an event, that?...
...great institution.We could also have great nicknames, like the Pop-Tops, or, even better, the “Screw-Offs.” That would show all those haters that Harvard doesn’t just study—look at our mascot, we’re just a bunch of kids up to no good.But then I did some research, and, sadly, the Cantab is not our mascot; it is actually short for Cantabrigian, a graduate from the University of Cambridge. But I did not give up, no way. I moved on and started thinking outside...