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...France's full return to NATO and the reinforcement of France's military presence in Afghanistan? The answer is yes, but with conditions. The blood tax paid by French soldiers accords France a central role in redefining the common strategy in Afghanistan, where the Western world cannot afford a defeat. Sarkozy's tougher tone toward Tehran, as well as his efforts to secure a climate of trust with Israel, can also be ranked as successes. Only hard-nosed diplomacy constitutes an alternative to war, and only an impartial go-between can be accepted by the two parties to conflict...
...executive floors]," says a 31-year-old analyst. After two years at Lehman, he arrived at work Monday morning without any idea of what might happen beyond what he read in the Wall Street Journal. "The really top execs screwed up very badly," he says. "They wouldn't admit defeat. They were macho. Absolute power corrupts absolutely - that kind of thing." Asked whether management had made any announcements on the firm's next steps, another employee responded: "No, but it's over...
...Crimson included sophomore Michael Hayes’ victory over Berkeley’s Geoff Chizever, (3-6, 7-6 (14-12), 6-2), co-captain Michael Kalfayan’s demolition of Cal’s Sky Lovill (6-4, 6-1), and freshman Davis Mangham’s defeat of Illinois’ Jordan Knue (7-5, 6-3). —Staff writer Jonathan B. Steinman can be reached at steinman@fas.harvard.edu...
...Harvard women’s soccer team opened its season with two losses last weekend in Southern California. Against the Long Beach State 49ers (3-1-1), the Crimson (0-2-0) could not find offensive rhythm and suffered a 3-0 defeat. “We didn’t play particularly well,” Harvard coach Ray Leone said. “It was first game jitters.” In the next contest against the Loyola Marymount Lions (2-2-1), the Crimson improved immensely but still fell 1-0. Harvard possessed the ball much better...
...years ago, in The Burden of Southern History, the historian C. Vann Woodward argued that the South was profoundly different from the rest of America because it was the only part of the country that had lost a war: "Southern history, unlike American ... includes not only an overwhelming military defeat but long decades of defeat in the provinces of economic, social and political life." Woodward believed that this heritage led Southerners to be more obsessed with the past than other Americans were - at its worst, in popular works like Gone With the Wind, there was a gagging nostalgia...