Word: downes
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“I think we’ve really come together,” Kessler said. “We struggled a little at the start defensively...[but] we’ve really settled down in our defensive zone and played very well.”
Dude. Seriously? The Mather House Masters just announced about 40 minutes ago that they'll be stepping down at the end of this academic year. First Eliot, then Cabot, and now Mather? What on earth is going on?
Obama's foreign policy, in fact, looks a lot like Richard Nixon's in the latter years of Vietnam, which sought to scale down another foreign policy doctrine - containment - that had gotten out of hand. And Nixon's experience offers both a warning and an example: pulling back from your...
Obama's effort to downsize the war on terrorism can also free up time and resources for the rest of American foreign policy. During the Bush Administration, the post-9/11 agenda often seemed to constitute a good 75% of the U.S.'s international agenda. If Obama could eventually get...
Therein lies the irony of Obama's downsizing effort: he needs to ratchet up conflicts at first - by sending more troops to Afghanistan and perhaps pushing new sanctions against Iran - to gain the diplomatic muscle to cut deals that don't look like abject American defeats. It's a risky...