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...particularly with Japan—would prove vital in moving beyond the tragedies of the past. “The soil can become fertile if the past is used as a mirror for the future, or it can remain infertile if unresolved history is left as ongoing conflict,” he said in a lecture yesterday. “Correct understanding of past history is a precondition for the good relations of future.” Kim said that Harvard has a role to play in smoothing over the tensions that exist between Korea and its counterparts...
...Gates made clear he believes there is a need for the F-22. "It is principally for use against a near-peer in a conflict, and I think we all know who that is," he said coyly. He's referring to China, which today represents the only hope for both the U.S. Air Force and the Navy to justify spending billions of dollars on weapons initially designed to battle the Soviet Union. Since the end of the Cold War, the phrase "near-peer" has increasingly crept into Pentagon documents meaning a potential foe that could almost match...
...Well, do we need more F-22 to battle Beijing? Once again, Gates depressed the generals with his unassuming tone and logic. "Looking at what I regard as the level of risk of conflict with one of those near-peers over the next four or five years until the Joint Strike Fighter comes along," he said, "I think that something along the lines of 183 is a reasonable...
...Runaways. More than 20 years ago, the surviving Inzerillos had been "allowed" to flee their home island by the then Sicilian boss of bosses Toto Riina. The bloodthirsty capo had killed dozens of their brothers, cousins, uncles and fathers in a mob war in the early 1980s, a conflict that cemented Riina's Corleone clan as the supreme rulers of Sicily's crime syndicate, also known as Cosa Nostra. Mafia experts say Riina was on his way to exterminating the rest of his rival clan when their American relatives and associates - including members of New York's Gambino family...
Unlike most deals between researchers and for-profit companies, conflict-of-interest restrictions do not apply in this case, according to Preminger...