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Rumsfeld was among the first to grasp what others would take months to understand: that threats to America overseas were no longer deterred by tanks, bombers and aircraft carriers. However clean his logic, getting the generals to give up their gadgets was turning out to be much dirtier work. "This is a very large organization," says General Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, "and as with any ship, there's a lot of inertia that won't allow you to turn it 10 degrees. You need energetic people to make that happen." But one man was no match...
...explain her continuing popularity? It's slightly complicated for people to grasp the idea of a head of state in human form, but I would put her appeal down to consistency. In their eyes, she has never let them down. There's a sameness, but at the same time a vitality...
...officers then attempted to stop him by physically grabbing him,” Catalano said. “The student was extremely sweaty and slipped from the officer’s grasp. The male then ran down the hall and attempted to get into a door...
...race. Nearly 70 students traveled to New Orleans over spring break with the support of the Phillips Brooks House Association alone.The week-long trips offered the students a fast-forward lesson in post-disaster uncertainty and stagnation, and one week might not have been enough time to fully grasp it. Students like Datar witnessed the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, visible across the city in everything from dysfunctional traffic lights to the blue tarps marking spots where residents had axed through attic roofs.Later that day in the neighborhood of Gentilly, Smith, looking down at the remains of her home, remembered what...
Hard as it is to grasp, you can live without your thesis. It may have run your life for many months, but now it is time to pick up those activities your left by the wayside for so long. Or, if your leadership positions have all been passed on to underclassmen, create a list of things to do before you graduate that you have always wanted to do but have never had the time to actually do. Now that your thesis is turned in, you really have no excuse...