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...dealings with the military. Bush and Cheney have been the opposite. They rushed to war in Iraq without adequate cause or preparation. This is not to say that military service is a requirement for leadership in time of war; neither Abraham Lincoln nor Franklin Roosevelt was a combat veteran. But for 50 years there has been a growing cultural chasm between the military and the rest of society. Those of us who haven't served have a special responsibility to listen to and try to understand those who have. The most common complaint I've heard from troops recently returned...
...image of him falling is something I'll never be able to get out of my mind. I fired, and there's Harry falling ..." Hunting had given him "great pleasure" in the past, but he wasn't so sure now. In fact, he sounded a lot like the combat veterans I've spoken with over the years, for whom the living nightmare of firing a weapon under questionable circumstances is a constant theme...
...draft plans to sell digital music and combat piracy, but was forced to shelve them just to focus on its core operations. "The company was in such a bad spot in terms of both earnings and capital structure, frankly, we didn't have time to think of anything else," says Rose. Levy's team discovered that the Virgin label wasn't integrated into the business, so essentially two separate music companies were operating within EMI. Record sales were clearly not recovering, either. Indeed, after her Glitter album tanked, EMI had to pay Mariah Carey $28 million to extricate itself from...
...have such different styles of play, the Crimson will have to readjust quickly. Tonight, Harvard will be facing a Brown club that employs a motion offense designed specifically to open up the court and shoot the three. On Saturday, the Crimson will have to change its defensive strategy to combat a Yale team that pounds the ball inside to Kaplan and fellow big man Dominick Martin. “This weekend is going to be a big test for us,” Cusworth said. “The Yale team plays very physical inside [so] we can?...
Those thoughts were interrupted when he served a mandatory three-year-term in the Israeli Defense Forces. He didn’t see combat, but his focus was understandably thrown temporarily from its rails...