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...hated, believing-correctly-that U.S. military might has helped liberate millions of innocents. But gratitude for such generosity is often short-lived. People want to control their own fate. Of course, it makes sense for a nation like Iraq, emerging from a dictatorship, to seek help from others. Generous people-and none are more generous than Americans-will respond in kind. But the idea that, unasked, Americans or anyone else can go into a foreign land, turn it upside down, stick around, and then be thanked for their trouble, was far-fetched at the time of the League of Nations...
...hated, believing?correctly?that U.S. military might has helped liberate millions of innocents. But gratitude for such generosity is often short-lived. People want to control their own fate. Of course, it makes sense for a nation like Iraq, emerging from a dictatorship, to seek help from others. Generous people?and none are more generous than Americans?will respond in kind. But the idea that, unasked, Americans or anyone else can go into a foreign land, turn it upside down, stick around, and then be thanked for their trouble, was far-fetched at the time of the League of Nations...
...especially to emphasize) if the loliaty of college students in American ceases to express itself in an intense desire to see their college athletic team win, and consequently in giving the services to organization for athletic success it may probably cease as well to find expression in the singularly generous giving to the material upbuilding of the educational plants of this country and in the constant striving for perfection of educational facilities...
...That same night, several friends and I were in the pimpin’ Lowell suite of a friend who is very generous with his high-quality alcohol. On our third gin and tonic, the cellphone of Simon W. Vozick Levinson ’06, the very FM writer assigned to interview Chopra, started blowin’ up like crazy, yo. On the other end was the tardy Chopra, asking whether we had started the movie. We told him we forwent Jane A to party, and he was all about to join us getting down when he realized that our host...
AUSTRALIA: That area in the Timor Gap is now the Joint Petroleum Development Area. The Timor Sea Treaty gives you 90% of the taxes and royalties and that's very generous...