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...British volunteer system seems to be working better than its American counterpart. The British services are getting desirable recruits, and the retention rate is good. One reason is that Britain has a stronger military tradition than the US. Another may be that the British armed forces are relatively small, compared with the American (316,400 vs. 2,032,000) and thus easier to manage. The British services also draw on a more homogeneous society than the American, Finally, British military morale has improved since Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government pushed through a 32% pay raise for the armed...
...over 250 new boarders, the K-School dean conceded several months ago, "At first blush, our reaction was, 'Look, we're full up. We don't need this.'" However, between the time Bok suggested the transfer in November and his formal announcement in February, both Allison and his counterpart at the GSD, Gerald M. McCue, had come to accept enthusiastically the President's proposition. Philosophically, all participants in the operation now agree that the activities of CRP had grown to resemble those of the K-School more than those of the GSD. Moreover, the move will allow McCue to refocus...
...short supply and considered by many to be of poor quality, Japan has happily filled the void. This year it will sell 2.2 million cars to U.S. drivers. The Japanese auto industry, which was only growing up a decade ago, will produce more automobiles this year than its American counterpart...
...republic, which was regulated by the order of Jedi Knights, who bore a vague resemblance to Japanese Samurai warriors. But eventually the citizens of the republic "didn't care enough to elect competent officials," says Lucas the historian, and so their government collapsed. A sorcerer, a bad counterpart of Yoda, blocked all opposition and declared himself Emperor. He was not seen in Star Wars: Episode IV, but he makes a brief appearance in The Empire...
...there a practical counterpart in relations among nations? At the end of World War II the U.S. wisely declined to exact vengeance upon Japan and Germany, but in stead helped to rebuild them, turning them at last, ironically, into the real economic victors of war. In the nuclear era, revenge may be too hairy a form of redress and self-gratification to be endured. Yet a cautionary super-revenge, in the latent form of a cataclysmic threat, is the governing principle of the nuclear age. Revenge, of course, some times achieves an air of respectability, of Realpolitik...