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...Tell the truth, and play it down the middle. Yes, demonizing others - "pointy-headed liberals," "Wall Street pigs," "socialists" or Fox News - is satisfying and helps mobilize the demonizer's political and ideological base. It also helps the demonized do the same. But divide-and-hope-to-conquer is horrible social policy, and we ought to shun anyone, from "senior officials" to Fox News to MSNBC, who does it. (See 10 perfect jobs for the recession - and after...
Seeing an opportunity to conquer a challenge and broaden his horizons, Munoz could not resist, and left his home in London in December 2007 for a nine-and-a-half-month trip that ended in New York...
...Snubbing France while offering an agreement with the U.S. and Russia is vintage Iranian divide-and-conquer diplomacy - although this time there may be incentives for all sides to play the game. The Vienna talks are on the details of an agreement, announced at the Geneva talks on Oct. 1, under which Iran would ship much of its enriched-uranium stockpile abroad for reprocessing to fuel a medical research reactor in Tehran. Together with Iran's agreement to submit its hitherto secret enrichment site at Qum to inspection, the deal offered an important opportunity to strengthen safeguards against Iran...
They came, they saw, but they did not conquer the Harvard men’s tennis team. That was the case for Alabama or Notre Dame at the Harvard Fall Classic Tournament this weekend, where the young Crimson squad held its own against some tough competition...
...Borlaug--who died Sept. 12 at the age of 95--joined the Rockefeller Foundation's effort to conquer hunger in Mexico. At the time, agricultural researchers were enhancing crop yields by bombing plants with nitrogen fertilizer. But they eventually discovered that the process made seed heads grow so big they would collapse in the field. Nature seemed to have hit a wall...