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DIED. NATHAN PUSEY, 94, president of Harvard who saw the university through the expansionist 1950s and '60s; in New York City. The Iowa-born Harvard alum created "need-blind" admissions and oversaw the near tripling of its administrative and teaching staff--including many women. He came under fire in 1969, when he called in police to oust from a campus building protesters from the radical Students for a Democratic Society. Pusey announced his retirement the next year...
...declares in the movie. His more subtle aim was to discourage America from interfering in Japanese affairs by showing the Yanks that Japan was a force. He hoped a quick victory in Hawaii would prompt the U.S. to petition for peace in the Pacific, which would allow expansionist Japan, already on the move in China, to pursue oil and other supplies in Sumatra, Borneo and Java. Japan felt it was under a tight deadline for invading those places. When it leapt, it did not want America butting...
...tripolarity requires innovation: What does a rising nation do when confronted by an expansionist world power, a human-rights violator, a rhetorical bully who promotes physical cruelty and threatens even the airspace of his neighbors? China has clearly chosen engagement over containment as it allowed DON KING to bring a heavyweight championship card to Beijing this August...
...expansionist logic of airlines and airports assumes that the air around and above us has an infinitely absorptive capacity and can tolerate any pollution. We used to think that about rivers. It isn't true, in either case. Industries that pollute rivers have been forced to change, to clean up. The people who worry about pollution from planes (noise pollution, trails of fuel waste raining down) are no longer Luddite crackpots...
...fact, we may be getting an early look at Amazon's next expansionist venture. Maybe it was meant to be a consulting business all along...