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...with Pearl Harbor, we were all complacent, thinking we were immune and not realizing the potential of our enemy. Everyone is accountable: the news media, the CIA, our military, Congress and the general public. But instead of working as a team, everyone is pointing fingers. How soon we forgot the lessons of Pearl Harbor and became complacent once more. BOYD BARKER COLONEL, U.S.A.F. (RET.) Ogden, Utah...
...think we had some great moments early [in the season], but I think we lost focus,” Wheaton said after his team’s elimination. “We forgot the work that goes into winning. One of our real objectives this weekend was to take advantage of that second chance that the NCAA provides, not so much by winning— which is nice—but by playing the way we know we want to play, and we did that these last two games...
...rather than spend the next two or three years dissecting what was wrong and who didn't read the right memo and who forgot to call their supervisor moment, this congressional panel should focus on the past only inasmuch as it provides blueprints for what's next...
...Tajik film, Djamshed Usmanov's Angel on the Right, has such a steely appreciation for man's deep need to fleece his fellow man that it plays like a David Mamet film moved to the village that time forgot. An ex-con returns home to help his dying mother. But mom is only pretending; she's a crook too, and wants sonny boy to fix up her house so she can settle the family debts. In a town where every transaction is negotiated with a handshake (you don't let go till you've agreed on a price...
...fall of 50 we all moved into the various houses. I landed at Eliot where the tutor was much loved. He was a Greek scholar and sometimes forgot that all of us lived in the twentieth century. He would, over a glass of sherry, refer to the traffic along the river as those boxes traveling from nowhere to some place else! Also resident in Eliot House was a senior editor of the Encyclopedia Britannica. He used to do his morning exercises in the buff and one day the biddy (a term used to describe the wonderful Irish maids...