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...Extended tours certainly help Army units adapt to a mission that has shifted inexorably from war-fighting to counterinsurgency and nation-building. More time on the ground means that soldiers have a better grasp of the local complexities and personalities that can determine the outcome of their mission. "With a year deployment you have six months of effective time: three months getting up to speed and three months winding down," says Major Thom Sutton, second in command at Naray. But how much can be asked of troops, many of whom have already served three tours? Even with visible successes, burnout...
...lesson of the mesmerizing Hopper show that has opened at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, where it remains until Aug. 19 before traveling to Washington and Chicago. That's also the Hopper paradox. He's the easy-to-read artist who's always just beyond our grasp...
Just like fanatical libertarians, who worship the invisible hand as their eternal deus ex machina, and foreign-policy messianists, who strive to export political systems without regard for local customs, the ideological pro-abortionists maintain only a tenuous grasp of reality...
...spluttered exclamation. Even the Teflon Taoiseach's opponents doubt he's pursuing a gilded lifestyle. A man of simple tastes, Ahern says his biggest indulgence is "a ticket to some good football match." Yet he is anything but a simple man. Quick on his feet and with a speedy grasp of policy, he's also a consummate politician. Charles Haughey, a discredited forerunner in the Taoiseach's office, described Ahern admiringly as "the most cunning, the most devious, the best of them all." Even so, voters seem to trust him. Frank Luntz, the U.S. pollster who has recently been taking...
...August 1991 to thwart the hard-liners' putsch. There has been an enormous and stunning political intuition and cunning. He always felt how things would turn out - and that was why he was always capable of turning the situation his way. August 1991 was no exception: he had instinctive grasp of things. He felt instinctively what he had to do to win. At the time, he knew as instinctively that he had to apologize publicly for the death of the three young boys who died in the August confusion. They were given heroes' burial, and Yeltsin made a moving...