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...compelling. For when the time came to confront the greatest moral challenge this nation has ever faced, this all too human man did not pass the challenge on to future generations. He neither demonized the fathers and sons who did battle on the other side nor sought to diminish the terrible costs of his war. In the midst of slavery's dark storm and the complexities of governing a house divided, he somehow kept his moral compass pointed firm and true...
...areas except one: regulation of the military competition. The game of nuclear one-upmanship is the outward manifestation of their essentially political conflict. Instead of using nuclear weapons to fight, the two sides have learned to use them to maneuver for political advantage and, at the same time, to diminish the danger of catastrophic conflict. That peculiar exercise in sublimation is what arms control is all about...
...industry analyst Cordle. The low-cost carrier, which largely serves the West Coast, has netted more than $100 million in savings from its smart hedging positions since 2002. This year the airline will buy half its fuel at $30 per bbl. But like Southwest's, that spread will diminish by the end of the decade. By then, all airlines will have to face the reality that their core business--not their fancy financial instruments--can be the only guarantor of success. JetBlue, the profitable low-cost carrier, is less hedged than Southwest and Alaska, largely because the company is only...
...Crimson eventually succumbed in five games to Yale in its last contest of the season, falling in the playoffs that determined the recipient of the automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. But that didn’t diminish what Harvard had already achieved...
...while the efforts of undergraduates to diminish the height and width of the building failed because they came too late—after the conclusion of extensive negotiations between Harvard, Cambridge, and residents of the Riverside neighborhood—students say they are hopeful that their protest has shown the University that undergraduates expect future involvement in the process...