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Inevitably, the immensity of Burrow's task requires as much omission as inclusion, and from the get-go he states his intention to bypass memoirs. Fortunately, at first, he seems to forget his own criterion. For instance, several pages are devoted to Xenophon's The Persian Expedition, a masterful account of a small Greek army trapped behind enemy lines, deep in the heart of the Persian Empire. Yet one of the stars of the show was Xenophon himself, his book a subtle piece of self-promotion. Likewise, Burrow makes a welcome exception for a memoir by Bernal...
Moving on to the general election... I think for a lot of people, you're just so closely associated with the surge, and some people - moderates and liberals - are not going to be able to forget that. Oh, I hope not. Seriously, because I'm very confident that by the general election, we would have achieved a lot more success...
Whether or not Barack Obama goes on to win the nomination - and let's not forget in the afterglow that this is truly an open question - his field army will endure and, because of their immense skill, they will bend the political process to their will in years to come. And years from now, when they meet in the corridors of power or academia or at the inevitable reunions, they'll look at each other and smile, and they won't even have to say the words: We did something amazing back in Iowa, on January 3, 2008, didn...
...Harvard must now forget the glory of ’07 and look ahead. The Crimson (7-7, 0-0 Ivy) will officially begin its Ivy League title defense tomorrow night, when Dartmouth (2-9, 0-0) will visit Lavietes Pavilion in the conference opener for both teams. Tip-off is scheduled...
...beam. You kiss your spouse and ride the goddess momentum all the way to New Hampshire. But what happens if you didn?t actually win? If possible, you declare victory anyway. The most famous example of the "declare victory" strategy was Bill Clinton in the 1992 New Hampshire primary. Many forget that Paul Tsongas - the lethargic, fiscal conservative from Massachusetts - actually won the '92 New Hampshire primary by 9 percentage points. But it was Bill Clinton who after staring down the media over an alleged affair with Gennifer Flowers and questions about his draft status during Vietnam turned a second-place...