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While they wrestled the crippled plane, the crew had a familiar drill to follow: the "classified destruction plan," which assigns each crew member a sensitive part of the plane to demolish. Some of the steps--erasing computer hard drives that recorded the day's mission--were manageable even if the plane's violent rocking kept the crew strapped into their seats. But the most sophisticated eavesdropping gear was supposed to be destroyed in order to be saved, smashed with hammers and hatchets or stuffed into weighted bags and dumped out of the plane's cargo doors. Once the plane managed...
...time news of the harrowing collision became public, a similar drill was being repeated in Washington and Beijing. Some on the front lines of the U.S.-China relationship were trying to save it, while others in the back seemed intent on blowing it up. Neither country was able to manage a clear response for days. In both, there are hard-liners, who seem to miss the days of cold war chest thumping, arrayed against accommodationists, who value, among other peace dividends, the $116 billion in annual trade. It was in the interest of both to let the other side know...
...final piece, “No Strings Attached” by Kimberlee R. Garris ’01 and Liz Piccoli seemed a digression as a special appearance from the Crimson Dance Team, but capped the show perfectly. The piece’s lighthearted theme, quick drill maneuvers, and flashy costumes were a pleasant relief from the more esoteric dances. However, more explicitly than its predecessors, “No Strings Attached” captured the position of the dancer as a person that appears bound by formal restrictions, but is liberated by the music and the movement...
...Mark Burnett and CBS didn't invent social Darwinism, and Fox's lawyers may be able to wriggle out of this one on universal-themes grounds alone. But what would have happened had they gone the other way, and put the real power in the hands of the drill sergeants...
...might have worked even better. To any military man, the idea of fellow recruits voting each other out of the service is just ludicrous enough to sour them on watching the show. The figures that in reality would be the real authority, and scary ones at that - the drill sergeants - are on Reality TV stripped of their realism, because they've been stripped of their power to expel. They become cartoonish. Ridiculous. Probstian...