Word: extentions
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...some extent, Nixon rebuilt his public image after the disgrace of his resignation. But Reeves takes us back, often minute by minute, into the sewer of the Nixon presidency, and deepens our understanding of just how pathological it really...
...struggle against terrorism, by contrast, is to some extent directed against people and groups who claim to be driven by faith. Theirs may be a distorted religiosity, but it is a powerfully felt one nonetheless. The appeals to reason that helped make communism quite literally unbelievable simply do not apply. The worst case is if the U.S. and its allies end up in a messy Vietnam-type debacle on the ground and in a new kind of cold war. As prosecuted by the eventual winners, the cold war was ultimately driven by the belief that freedom was a value worth...
...depth of the disbelief among those Mohammed Atta left behind in Cairo signifies the extent of the personality change required to have turned their friend into a mass killer. And yet, all are also aware of the powerful cross currents generated by Egyptian society's precarious perch at the intersection between the harsh and conflicting demands of Western modernity and geopolitics, failed Arab nationalism and Islamic extremism...
...bravery. We're a unit of Army journalists - to the extent that soldiers ever deserve that label - and our mission in Egypt is to put a good-news weekly paper for the troops of "Operation Bright Star," an annual U.S.-led international training exercise in the muggy desert somewhere near Alexandria. But we're also an "escort" unit, which means our real job is to make sure that the civilian press doesn't write any more bad news about the Army than can be helped...
...there’s an inherent safety method that nobody’s gonna try anything too sketchy. It’s actually really lucky that you can have these people who are going to be your competition because they’re intelligent, and you can, to some extent, trust them the first time you put down. I’d say Harvard’s a really good place to start playing poker more seriously...