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...elite military corps? Call them Extreme Peacekeepers or the Freedom Corps or whatever, but seek out the sort of people who aren't normally inclined to join the military--idealistic college students who hope to become doctors, lawyers, politicians or engineers and are eager to do something noble (and burnish their resumes) by serving their country...
...?lite military corps? Call them Extreme Peacekeepers or the Freedom Corps or whatever, but seek out the sort of people who aren't normally inclined to join the military-idealistic college students who hope to become doctors, lawyers, politicians or engineers and are eager to do something noble (and burnish their r?sum?s) by serving their country...
...curious, given that Bush's nominations to the lower courts have been so solidly planted on the right. In fact, some skeptical conservatives believe that Bush has been true blue on the lower courts in order to pave the way for nominating the more moderate Gonzales. And perhaps to burnish his conservative credentials, Gonzales has helped select and then sell these judicial nominees. He has personally met nearly all the candidates for district and appellate seats and says they are never asked their opinions on any hot-button issues...
ELEANOR P. DELORME. Long after French military and economic influence began to decline, France is still a center of European art and style. Among those who helped to burnish France’s cultural credentials was Josephine de Beauhamais, best known as wife to Napoleon. While her husband relied on her for emotional support, his empire relied on her for her impeccable taste in art. Eleanor P. Delorme will present her new biography, Josephine: Napoleon’s Incomparable Empress, in a lecture hosted by the Harvard Bookstore at the Sackler Museum at 6 p.m. on Apr. 10. Complimentary tickets...
...Sorghum, Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern, Zhang proved himself in the art houses abroad. But many mainland critics remained unimpressed, accusing him of "exoticizing" the nation's feudal past and poverty-stricken countryside for foreigners. They felt he should play cultural ambassador, using his camera to burnish China's overseas image. Chinese audiences share this ambivalence. Younger moviegoers have an almost universal description of why they dislike Zhang's fixation on the past and on the countryside: "The films are really just too far away from us," says Zhang's 25-year-old assistant, speaking of her boss...