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Joseph S. Nye Jr., an international relations scholar at the Kennedy School and the moderator of the event, asked the panelists—Kennedy School professors Graham T. Allison, Linda J. Bilmes, Tad J. Oelstrom, Sarah Sewall, and former Rep. Clay Shaw (D-Fla.)—how many troops they each expected the next president to inherit in Iraq. None estimated that there would be fewer than 80,000 on active duty...
Christopher Hitchens once devoted an entire book to portraying Mother Teresa as a phony, so perhaps Billy Graham got off easy when Hitchens described him, in a recent C-Span appearance, as "a self-conscious fraud," who didn't believe a word of what he preached, but was just in business for the money...
...celebrated atheist, whose latest polemic, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, is firmly entrenched on the bestseller list, also called Graham a power-worshiping bigot who made a living by "going around spouting lies to young people. What a horrible career. I gather it's soon to be over. I certainly hope...
...fast bowlers (Richard Hadlee) and yachtsmen skilled enough to win the America's Cup twice. While all of these men knew how it felt to compete under a nation's expectation, the All Blacks are a case apart. Failure has never been an option for them. Their hardheaded coach Graham Henry sounds positively Nietzschean when he declares: "The success of our rugby team is important to the psyche of the nation - we understand that, we agree with that and we live by that...
...mostly hot air, which All Blacks coach Graham Henry has been cutting through in the build-up to the Blacks' opening match against Italy in Marseilles on Sept. 8. Henry sounds like the opposite of a man in denial: "The success of our rugby team is important to the psyche of the nation - we understand that, we agree with that and we live by that." Under the former headmaster, the All Blacks have been potent, winning 38 of their 43 matches since the last Cup. In that time, they've dominated the two sides ranked immediately below them, Australia...