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...censored from describing their surroundings for fear of tipping off the enemy to military movements. As a result their letters home are far more personal, more expressive of the gripping fears and hopeful longings of young men with no illusions left. Each one of these introspective letters sounds the distant and disturbing echo of a lone bugle blowing taps...
...around the time of the L.A. uprising in the '90s--when a sizable number of people thought American culture was drifting inevitably toward a comforting state of colorblindness. Sure, the nation was confronted with myriad racial difficulties and divisions, but eventually, at some dreamed-of point in the perhaps distant future, things would work their way out: we'd learn to love our neighbors; the Census form would be reduced to one box, human; and everybody from Compton, Calif., to Greenwich, Conn., would hug, link hands and sing Kum ba yah together...
While most councillors said they liked Rudenstine as a person, they described his relationship with the council and Cambridge as similar to the one he enjoys with undergraduates--distant at best...
...this era of globalization there may be other such conflicts ahead. These will be minimal-risk campaigns, emphasizing aerospace power or ships at sea to threaten precision strikes from long range, with small, stealthy unmanned vehicles to collect information and deliver firepower, and they will be controlled by distant leaders using virtual command technologies. Even better, if we have the capability, will be cyberwar to scramble an enemy's military command or disrupt electricity systems without bloodshed...
There is plenty about our present globalized economic system that should trouble not just aging radicals but ordinary people as well. A financial panic starting in distant money centers can cause you, through no fault of your own, to lose your job, as happened to millions of people during the Asian financial crisis of 1997. Modern capitalists can move their money in and out of different countries around the world at the speed of a mouse click. Democratic countries find that their options for political choice--whether in the realm of social policy, economic regulation or culture--are curtailed...