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...aspects of the war, particularly the administration’s inability to give the war a clear definition or direction. The cabinet conceptualizes the war only in terms of what it is not: not the Clinton administration’s response to terrorism, not the Soviets’ disastrous foray into Afghanistan, not Vietnam. This may explain why the cabinet’s strategies have been largely unsuccessful, from the anticlimactic air campaign to, most egregiously, the failure to locate bin Laden...
Despite its minor presence, this small complex bespeaks the University’s continuing foray into the land that will one day house a new Harvard campus. The move was a symbolic one to many Allston residents and provided Harvard with a lesson in community relations across the River...
...lines of modern architecture have been making their way fitfully into churches. In a way they have been lending their validity to religion, at least in the eyes of secularized society. Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen and Louis Kahn all designed great and very spare modern churches. The sole foray into church design by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the great founding master of modernism, was a nondenominational chapel in brick, steel and glass built in 1952 on the campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology. To put it mildly, it's a parsimonious expression of faith...
...firm has stumbled occasionally. In 1997 it paid $146 million for a Colorado vitamin business that proved a bust, and it made a costly foray into Internet retailing. But those missteps have helped Whole Foods executives hone their strategy: to create a "supernatural" giant that can withstand the challenge from both conventional chains and the 500-pound gorilla called Wal-Mart, which is selling ever more low-priced organic fare...
...Iraqis are in violation of international law and his belief that war is an acceptable remedy for such violations, does Butler see any reason for optimism in the current situation? "It's not particularly hopeful," he concedes. But having spent his entire career - with the exception of a brief foray into Australian domestic politics - working in foreign affairs and disarmament, he has not lost faith in the power of diplomatic persuasion. He holds out hope that...