Word: commander
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Humanitarian aid is, in the post-cold war world, increasingly the response of choice to the plethora of small-scale slaughters that prick the West's collective conscience but do not seem important enough to command greater diplomatic or military involvement. The travails in delivery last week were only a symptom of the lack of political will in Western capitals to act forcefully. Humanitarian aid feels good to those who insist that something must be done to stop the killing in Bosnia, in Somalia, in a dozen other bloody conflicts. And it is far more politically palatable than sending soldiers...
...Manassas, Longstreet was promoted again to major general. He became close to Lee, who named Longstreet his senior subordinate when he assumed cammand of the Army of Northern Virgina, calling Longstreet "the staff in my right hand. " He became Lee's most reliable general and "handled his command with the confidence and calmness that became a hallmark of his battlefield leadership...
...case I'll be making to Democrats in the coming weeks is that the candidate who beats Bill Weld Will be the candidate who can beat him at every level: concern for people, commitment to values, and command of ideas," Barrett said in a statement last April. "I'm ready to begin...
...though we're beginning the job of covering Harvard sports anew, but it's fair to say that our command unit of three may present a little different slant on things, without the likes of John Trainer's elegant cynicism to goad us on. We hope to present more games in a greater variety of Harvard sports to you, and maybe we'll even slice in a bit of the sporting "Real World" from time to time a la the news department. Right now, we're just going to take it day by day, game by game...
Indeed it is. What emerges from this complex collaboration is the illusion that, by George, Gershwin is right in one's living room, banging away in his fluid song-plugger style. "Gershwin never played soft," observes Wodehouse. But he did have a consummate technical command of his instrument, which, coupled with the tremendous rhythmic vitality of his playing, gives his performances an irresistible strut and swagger. Two more Gershwin albums are on the way from Wodehouse. 'S Wonderful...