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...culture's side to the exclusion or detriment of another's [ESSAY, Dec. 17]. Rosenblatt does not, however, address a fundamental and perhaps more morally viable option: Can't God be on everyone's side? Maybe God joins with those who practice the apostle Paul's simple yet profound command to do everything in love. HARRY J. AVERELL Gainesville...
...Force Base-from which the Afghan war is being directed-prompting new fears about security at a time when more small, lightly regulated aircraft are filling the skies. Bishop's close friend Emerson Favreau told Time that days before the crash Bishop asked him how to locate the command center inside MacDill. Investigators think he originally targeted the base...
...Harvard is a rather good employer when wages and benefits are compared to those offered on a regional or national level. Unfortunately, PSLM rhetoric continues to demonize the Harvard administration. In their imagery, every administrator picks up his hotline to Lucifer before making labor decisions. (Hello, dark lord, your command? Cut wages? Right away.) For PSLM, perhaps the closest analogs to the members of the Harvard Corporation are ringwraiths...
...Once firearms arrived, "Europe, far more easily than other cultures, was able to convert ranks of spearmen" into deadly infantrymen. They "fired as they had stabbed?in unison, on command, shoulder to shoulder and in rank." From this flowed astonishing Western military feats: Hernan CortEs' 1,600 men slaughtering more than one million Aztecs (1519-21); a Christian fleet's crushing of a larger Ottoman Muslim armada at Lepanto (1571) and the creation of an empire on four continents by a British army that in 1879 had only...
...Hanson's command of a broad historical canvas is impressive. But his analysis becomes less convincing when he speculates about the future. Today, he says, "deadly Western armies have little to fear from any force other than themselves." His corollary: the West need not worry about non-Western flare-ups (e.g., in the Middle East) as much as a war between two Western armies...