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...ferment has stirred the spirit of the city's neighborhoods, 100 of which now mount their own festivals. In addition, 16 ethnic groups in the city, ranging from Estonians to Italians, hold festivals each year in Charles Center or the Inner Harbor...
Some of the modern ferment comes from a retired fighter pilot named John Boyd, a tactical analyst who has lingered at the Pentagon for years studying the theory of war back to China's Sun Zi (Sun Tzu) around 400 B.C. Boyd's four-hour lecture has been given dozens of times to the top military and civilian officials at the Defense Department. Boyd's message, in essence, is that successful warfare is primarily psychological, not physical; the use of maneuver, surprise, deception and speed to find an enemy's weaknesses (not fight his strengths...
...other night, Troise came cautiously to the phone and said yes, they were trying to give the club a decent burial. "Don't use my address, O.K.?" There was a good deal of commotion in the background, and the caller asked Troise whether the noise was creative ferment. Well, as a matter of fact, Troise admitted, he and a friend were trying to mobilize the nation's pets to solve the energy crisis. "Put the little beggars on treadmills." Did the movement have a slogan? "Sure: 'It's not enough to be cute any more...
...hijacking climaxed nearly a month of mounting unrest in Pakistan, the most serious wave of opposition that General Zia's martial-law regime has faced since it came to power in a military takeover in 1977. The ferment began with a secret meeting in Lahore of representatives of seven opposition parties. With all political activity outlawed for the past 18 months, some politicians had to circumvent travel bans, while others sent surrogates...
...interest in religion brought him to Harvard Divinity School at a time when Cambridge was in a state of ferment. Stockman became estranged from what he calls the "nihilistic radicalism" of the period. He found refuge as a live-in babysitter for Daniel P. Moynihan, then a Cambridge-Washington commuter while serving as an adviser to Richard Nixon. At home on weekends, Moynihan, now a U.S. Senator from New York, treated graduate students to brandy-spiced evenings of political conversation. "I became Moynihanized," Stockman says. "I was looking for an alternative viewpoint that was respectable, while being anti-left...