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...aren’t necessarily looking for compatibility,” Mancall said. “We are looking for growth. That’s what freshman year is about—challenge, growth, and conflict, both external and internal...
...vertiginous mountain tracks, in sweltering heat and freezing cold, the young men checked and halted the Japanese advance. When the battle-hardened Australian 7th Division arrived back from the Middle East in support, the Japanese were doomed. Here in New Guinea, wrote Winston Churchill in his history of the conflict, "the tide of war" had turned. One measure of the intensity of the fighting is the fact that of Australia's 20 Victoria Crosses in the war, 12 were won in the Pacific. The Commonwealth's supreme decoration for bravery has been awarded only 1,355 times since its institution...
...Judging by the outpouring of grief for Jennings, it's clear that he had long since won that respect. He worked his way from conflict to conflict, country to country, rising to Chief Foreign Correspondent at ABC before eventually retaking the job of fulltime anchor of World News Tonight in 1983. Along with Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather, Peter Jennings formed the steady triumvirate of anchors that would preside over the American evening news for the next two decades. The three rivals had an unusually warm relationship, and when Rather retired as anchor this March, it was Jennings who insisted...
...situation inIraq a war? Iraq is an emerging democratic country struggling to govern itself after years of oppression. There are lawless insurgents, both foreign and Iraqi, that the authorities must deal with. Why doesn't the U.S. just get out of the way? If we keep calling the conflict a war, the insurgents may gain strength by naming it "the American war." They will use that label to recruit Iraqis who hate...
...conflict in what the Bible tells me about God and what science tells me about nature. Like St. Augustine in A.D. 400, I do not find the wording of Genesis 1 and 2 to suggest a scientific textbook but a powerful and poetic description of God's intentions in creating the universe. The mechanism of creation is left unspecified. If God, who is all powerful and who is not limited by space and time, chose to use the mechanism of evolution to create you and me, who are we to say that wasn't an absolutely elegant plan...