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...devise a rescue operation. Tuttle says the DIA built a tabletop-size model of the Laotian camp based on satellite photos and took it to Fort Bragg in North Carolina to help the JSOC with its planning. Members of the Delta Force say the commandos then planned to construct a full-scale mock- up in the Philippines to practice its raid; as cover, it would pretend to be a Hollywood company shooting a commando movie. The JSOC sent intelligence officers to scout a remote airstrip in Thailand, where cargo planes carrying MH-6 helicopters would land to stage the airborne...
Through its exploration of the emotional and symbolic impact of black, Cohn's exhibit tries to show that "every cultural construct, from alchemy to academe, from liturgy to law, has found a role for black." According to Cohn, black has permeated our society as a "symbol of the absolute." The ubiquitous power of black is further evidenced in the political realm--"blackness has become a mark and divider of the races." While these observations appear self-evident, When grouped together they have a greater impact...
...World War II era saw the further entrenchment of Bechtel's financial and political clout. The federal government turned to Bechtel to construct warships for both the British and American fleets. And after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Secretary of War Henry Stimson literally ordered Bechtel to build the Alaska Oil Highway...
Although this is patently untrue, Harvard students will encounter this falsehood at every turn of their undergraduate careers. Harvard teachers and administrators like to emphasize the process of scholarship and reasoning, saying that professors teach students how to research and how to construct an argument...
Regardless of the bill's fate, few experts are ready to bet entirely on the Bells in the struggle to construct a profitable information highway. For one thing, the phone companies have virtually no experience in creating programs for the newly wired homes. One of the Bells' biggest rivals in the information race scoffs at the deal between Disney and three Baby Bells as "showboating" and "premature." Concurs TCI senior vice president Bob Thomson: "There's still a lot of hype going on amongst the Bells. There's quite a bit of smoke flying around...