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...during budget negotiations. The more the services thought about Rumsfeld's "transformation," the less they cared for it. As an admiral said last week, "Like it or not, the current strategy resonates with most people here. It's better to be engaged overseas than to have to die [in combat]. We like that. When we're engaged, we know the turf and we know the allies. Pulling out takes all that away...
SUSPENDED. JOSEPH ELLIS, 57, Pulitzer-prizewinning history professor who regaled his students with fabricated tales about his combat experiences in Vietnam; for one year without pay from his teaching post at Mount Holyoke College; in South Hadley, Mass. Ellis, author of such popular works as Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, issued a formal apology in June after the Boston Globe reported he had never served overseas. He must relinquish his endowed chair...
...What if China hadn't turned inward after Zheng He's exploits? The nation arguably would have been stronger, more cosmopolitan and better equipped to combat the brutal assaults of the Western powers and Japan in the 19th and 20th centuries. When outsiders with advanced technologies, big guns and missionary zeal began prying the country open, China could do little to repel the onslaught. The 21st century might well turn out to be China's, but hundreds of years were lost when the Confucians trumped the eunuch-explorers. "If the foreign expeditions had been sustained, the world would be very...
...staff and brought back trusted family political advisers. He became a different kind of Congressman--one who acknowledged some frailties that made him seem more human, less like a Kennedy fund-raising machine. Having gone public with the fact that he has sought therapy and taken medication to combat depression, he champions legislation to improve mental-health services. He took back his Appropriations Committee seat, and he sends home regular reports about getting new buses for the Rhode Island transit authority, dock repairs for Prudence Island and fancy digital radios for the Pawtucket police...
...Think about it. Heading into the second half of his first year in office, George W. Bush has several problems: The "crisis"-driven impetus for his energy plan is disappearing before his eyes. He?s under fire for declining to combat global warming. And worst of all, those tax rebate checks - get your $300 yet? - aren't showing much sign of reviving the economy...