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What happened in London is yet another attack on the citizens of Western countries that have a military presence in the Middle East. An endless stream of people are willing to commit suicide in violent acts for a cause that has been made absolutely clear to us: forcing us out of the Middle East. We are the worst kind of trespassers in Middle Eastern countries, driven by a hunger for their oil but with no legitimate business there. We continue to deal with unscrupulous royalty while the death toll rises. We must get out of the Middle East...
...Economics majors can acquire [analytic and quantitative reasoning] skills without having to commit themselves too early to a specific track, as they would if they majored in business administration (in universities where such an undergraduate major is available) or accountancy or such subjects,” Dixit wrote. “In other words, economics has high ‘option value’ in the process of making a career choice...
...most. Four or five years after the end of the war, he fell in love with a woman whose parents refused to let her marry him because he was a victim of the A-bomb and who knew how long he would live? In despair, the lovers tried to commit suicide by taking sleeping pills but failed. Eventually they got married, once it became apparent to her parents that he wasn't going to die young. They had three children and seven grandchildren. "I experienced so much pain, but I am happy now," Tsuboi says. "I can say that...
...shunned and ridiculed by his colleagues. As Aeschylus knew, exile doesn?t dampen the inner flames, it fans them. Powers walked about Manhattan subsisting on his unreasonable dreams of hope, becoming leaner but prouder and more defiant. Such people are dangerous, and by 1965 Powers was poised to commit a desperate...
...rudely injected into a Muslim civil war--the jihadists are intent on conquering the entire region and re-establishing an ancient caliphate--except that only the jihadist side was really fighting. By taking the fight to the Arab/ Islamic heartland, the U.S. has forced Muslims to commit. The most remarkable effect of the wars to liberate Afghanistan and Iraq is that, whereas on 9/11 we stood alone against the terrorists, today there are two large and energized Muslim populations--with legitimate governments building armed forces--engaged in the same struggle against jihadism...