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...prison-camp system, which sold 600,000 copies in France in less than a year, inspired a cadre of ex-radicals eventually known as "The New Philosophers" to issue its own critiques of communism. In Barbarism with a Human Face, for example, Bernard-Henri Levy demanded that French radicals confront the idea that Marxism was inherently corrupt...
...movie has two other qualities you don't always find in films of this kind: a sense of humor and a sense of character. At a particularly desperate moment when Jack must confront the drug boss, he simply walks up to the boss's gate and blandly presents a CIA business card to the menacing guards. It's a much smarter, more amusing choice than blasting...
...Torricelli of New Jersey, a senior Democrat on the intelligence panel, knows what to make of Woolsey's new, accommodating tone. "When I said those same things to him a few months ago, he flew into a rage," Torricelli says. Woolsey now seems to accept the fact that to confront America's new adversaries abroad successfully, he needs more allies at home...
Carnesale wrote in a second memo released July13 that he was "confident that the School and itsnext Dean will not confront an unmanageablefinancial situation...We must now establishprocedures to ensure that the cost savings in theSchool's administration are realized on acontinuing basis, and we must achieve greaterefficiency and effectiveness throughout theSchool...
Breyer has had to confront one other major criticism that professors say is even more unfounded...