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Rosovsky, Epstein’s oldest friend in the bunch, met the mogul through similarly serendipitous circumstances. Twelve years ago, “we were introduced by a mutual friend, Mr. Leslie Wexner,” Rosovsky writes in an e-mail...
That gets to the second reason why President Bush couldn’t build a “hegemonic” empire of subject-states: Voters wouldn’t stand for it. We Americans tend to be an inward-looking bunch, wary of expending blood and treasure on overseas adventures that are unrelated to national security. As military historian Victor Davis Hanson emphasizes, U.S. power is ultimately not restrained by “China, Russia, or the European Union, but rather by the American electorate itself—whose reluctant worries are chronicled weekly by polls that are eyed...
...physical resources people are working very hard on the dance issue, and looking at a bunch of spaces that are currently here. As I see it, you’ve either got to convert some large space or you’ve got to build something. I don’t think there’s anything that’s here that we’ve overlooked. We’ve looked at everything in Cambridge. Just as crucial is the practice room situation...
...What is the crime this ragged bunch has committed? It is simply that they are Hmong, mostly the children, grandchildren or even great-grandchildren of fighters who in the 1960s sided with the U.S. to fight communism in Laos during the Vietnam War. Fabled for their resourcefulness and valor, many Hmong became members of a secret CIA-backed militia that helped rescue downed U.S. pilots and disrupted North Vietnamese supplies and troop movements along the Ho Chi Minh Trail through central Laos. The communist Pathet Lao movement?and its patrons in Hanoi?has never forgotten the Hmong's complicity with...
...This year was a year of growing for our team,” Klein said. “We’ve gone through a lot together. But looking to next year we’re going to have a very mature squad going into tournaments and a bunch of guys with great potential...