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...just after World War II, the historian Allan Nevins observed, "Probably in all our history, no foe has been so detested as were the Japanese." The real astonishment is the extent to which a hatred of the Japanese vanished in America. Curiously, Americans are now in many ways more anti-American than anti-Japanese. There is even a danger that Americans in a self-flagellating mood have become prejudiced against themselves...
Harvard looked noticeably sluggish after its 20-day layoff, but managed to combine solid defense with timely offense to beat its foe from New York...
Harvard senior Sam Cole will face off against a familiar foe at 134 Ibs. in fifth-ranked junior Co-Captain Mark Fergeson...
WHEN THE GRAND ARMY of the Republic and General Sherman perfected total war on the way to the beach, they executed a fundamental shift in friend-foe relations. The realization that whole societies and not just armies go to war made societies legitimate targets. Supply lines, economic resources (crops, farms, mines), communications networks--all of them helped the enemy, and they all needed to be cut off if the war was ever going...
...year began, after all, with the most smashing military victory this side of Agincourt, a victory that demonstrated not just American military prowess but also diplomatic skill, technological pre- eminence and national will. And the year ended with the collapse, indeed the total evaporation of America's most implacable foe, a global giant that had vowed to bury us and spent the better part of 45 years trying...