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...proposal must be approved by an acquisitions editor and at a general editorial meeting before an author is invited to complete a manuscript. Once a draft is finished, HUP sends out a copy to a few experts for review. “It forces the author if it’s done right to really think about what his peers are going to say before the book is reviewed out there,” Sisler says. “Instead of getting whacked when the book is published, we can fix things before the book ever sees the light...
Ronald Reagan had carefully prepared for the moment, rewriting by hand several portions of the speech. An earlier draft read, "Surely historians will see [that the Soviets] are the focus of evil in the modern world." But speaking before the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Fla., Reagan made the speech tougher by removing the business about the historians. He also denounced calls for a nuclear freeze, saying that to agree to one would be to accede to "the aggressive impulses of an evil empire." His uncompromising rhetoric unsettled members of the Washington establishment, who warned that it would reheat...
...today's beasts in the forest, and they need to be tamed. Shortly after Gulf War I ended in 1991, Wolfowitz got a chance to show how. Cheney asked him to overhaul the Pentagon's basic strategic-planning document, known as the Defense Planning Guidance. In March 1992, a draft was first leaked to the New York Times. Forward leaning wasn't the half of it; the document suggested that the U.S. should discourage other nations "from challenging our leadership." The U.S., the draft went on to say, "may be faced with the question of whether to take military steps...
...time when the Bush Administration was trying to coax a defeated Russia and a newly unified Germany into becoming full and respected partners in the international system, the draft's bellicose terms were tactless. Cheney and Wolfowitz were told to tone them down. But from his perch at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, where he waited out the Clinton years, Wolfowitz continued to talk and write about Iraq. Like a traveler struggling to keep his campfire burning amid chilly winds, he took every chance to stoke the fire, reminding all who would listen that there was unfinished...
Which was disappointing, because Harvard seemed so capable of getting there. It had as many NHL draft picks (13) as any team in the nation, arguably the best player on the ice in each of its games during the later half of the season (Moore), a playoff-tested goaltender (sophomore Dov Grumet-Morris), and the invaluable experience of nearly beating the eventual NCAA runner-up during the first round of last season’s tournament...