Word: crisises
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The movie's promoters advertise the story as a romantic, fish-out-of-the-water comedy. In 1962, at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, an eccentric scientist Calvin Webber (Christopher Walken) and his expectant wife (Sissy Spacek) decide to enter their fallout shelter for just a week or...
The problem with heroism is that it can't be grown hydroponically. Heroes do not sprout through training programs. They do not blossom through a series of interviews or bloom from an advanced degree program. Instead, heroes emerge out of circumstances that call for heroism. They are often the people...
Thirty years ago, Harvard students studying government could attend lectures by professors with names like Kissinger and Moynihan. Today, though the department as a whole is considered the best in the country, the branch devoted to the study of American politics sits, at least according to one former member, on...
"You have a 55-person department, and only three senior and three junior professors in American [government]," says Morris P. Fiorina, who left his chairship as Thomson professor of government last year to accept a tenured post at Stanford University. "It takes a crisis and the American program is close...
Undeterred, the Republicans continued their cockamamie inquiries. From Filegate to Travelgate to Chinagate, they spent more time concocting investigations than they did creating policy, a fact that wasn't lost on the American people come election time. And when the President's indefensible liaison with Monica Lewinsky became known to...