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...symbolism of President Clinton's Vietnam visit may cloud the underlying strategic issues. After all, the spectacle of an erstwhile draft dodger becoming the first U.S. president to visit Hanoi and lay to rest the wounds of the past is pregnant with symbolic meaning, and will no doubt produce reams of op-ed copy in both the U.S. and Vietnam. But as President Clinton insists, Vietnam is not simply a war, but a country with whom the U.S. needs a relationship. And although he paid tribute to the war dead on both sides in an unprecedented speech Friday, the President...
...promotional brochure ("Dr. Shama's inspirational, fun-filled programs will give you hope and teach you constructive, easy ways to make positive changes in your life as a health care provider," it claims), folders of testimonials from satisfied customers and a growing draft for a book on his philosophy of medicine. His suite of prepared talks and role-playing workshops...
...debate is over. The world is warming, and humans are responsible. Human activity, such as the burning of fossil fuels, has "contributed substantially to the observed warming over the last 50 years." So concludes the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the premiere international body of climate experts, in a draft of their Third Assessment Report set to be released early next year. The debate now revolves around two questions: How quickly will this warming take place, and what will the effects of this warming be? Both are valid scientific questions and currently the subjects of additional research, but they...
Feaster, like your typical economics concentrator at Harvard, had a job offer as an equities analyst waiting for her at Merrill Lynch in New York after graduation. But she instead decided to postpone one promising career to begin another when she was drafted fifth overall in the 1998 WNBA Draft by the Los Angeles Sparks...
Back home, Schlesinger plunged into work on what became his Pulitzer prize-winning The Age of Jackson (he won a second Pulitzer, in 1966, for his participant's history of the Kennedy Administration, A Thousand Days). Kept out of the draft by poor eyesight, he worked for the Office of War Information, eventually returning to London for the Research and Analysis branch of the oss. Schlesinger politely rejects the Tom Brokaw idea of "the greatest generation": "Like all wars, our war was accompanied by atrocity and sadism, by stupidities and lies, pomposity and chickens...