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Native Americans, we like to believe, live at one with the universe, serenely attuned to the ebb and flow of natural forces. The culture of the U.S. Marine Corps is quite the opposite--gung-ho machismo in full cry. Yet in World War II, the latter had a desperate need for the former, specifically for an unbreakable code, based on the Navajo language, which could be openly spoken on the radio in combat. Windtalkers is a (heavily) fictionalized account of this coupling...
...What are your suggestions to Harvard freshmen who already know they want to go into finance? How can such gung-ho students position themselves to eventually get these jobs...
...Talk about extending the anti-terror war to Iraq (as Bush administration officials have been doing in recent weeks) and skepticism turns quickly to alarm, not only among the usual suspects of the Non-Aligned Movement, but even among America's most gung-ho allies. Even Britain has insisted all along that Iraq will not be attacked unless there is evidence linking it to terrorism - and the Brits have been careful to add that they've seen no evidence yet of any such link...
...Tony Blair may be gung-ho about the war on terrorism, but his enthusiasm is not shared by his Labor Party's traditional media stronghold, The Guardian. In a commentary titled "A Grubby, Vengeful War" Madeleine Bunting warns of the impending humanitarian disaster. "You can't blow up fuel dumps, as the U.S. has done in Herat and Kabul, without crippling the distribution of aid. You can't bomb a country from high altitude without hitting depots and spreading fear amongst truck drivers and warehouse laborers? Aid is piling up in warehouses but not reaching the hungry stomachs that need...
...listen to 100 different versions of how horrendous an event this was," he says. "I didn't want to hear any more pain, to have more emotions thrown at me. The pastor felt that he needed to talk about whether people are being too patriotic and too gung-ho. That's fine. But that was not what I went there...