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...Secretary of State is more thankless than glamorous; in some ways, the Department of State, a noble antique, is still trying to come to terms with the invention of the telephone. In an era when Twitter haiku-messaging rules, diplomacy moves at the speed, and requires the nuanced complexity, of literature. Power has drifted from State to the National Security Council and the Pentagon, especially in wartime. Only a few of Clinton's recent predecessors have distinguished themselves. Henry Kissinger, a National Security Adviser who belatedly became Secretary of State, was Richard Nixon's schizophrenic alter ego; George Shultz...
...era, Jacques Plante was seen as a wimp. After the Montreal Canadiens goalie was struck in the face by a flying puck while playing against the New York Rangers on Nov. 1, 1959, the future Hall-of-Famer refused to return to the ice sans protection. Much to the scorn of his coach and fans, Plante returned from the locker room with a crude home-made fiberglass mask in place. Though coach Toe Blake wanted Plante to remove the mask after his wounded face healed, the Canadiens rattled off an 18-game win streak, despite Plante's obscured face...
...described these groups as “the informal coalition who have elected most every mayor in the modern era...
...Virginians will judge me on my 18-year record as a legislator and Attorney General and the specific plans I have laid out for our future - not on a decades-old academic paper I wrote as a student during the Reagan era and haven't thought about in years. Like everybody, my views on many issues have changed as I have gotten older." - In a public statement that ran in several newspapers in August, in response to the Post's story on his controversial thesis attacking feminists, homosexuals and unmarried couples he wrote as a 34-year-old student...
...interview with the Wall Street Journal, University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann ’71 explained that “the Sputnik era didn’t come because a lot of idealists said we had to be better. It came because there were idealists as there are today who said we’re in trouble as a country, we have to compete against the Russians. We have to compete today against the Chinese and Indians who are graduating tens of thousands more very talented science, math, and engineering graduates from their colleges.” The success...