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...everything from rethinking the platform's ballast system to installing anti-slip surfaces on its decks. In short, at the time when it was originally supposed to be in service, the vessel was not fit for the open sea - and that much was obvious even in Hawaii, not the harsh Bering Sea. "When you read that report, you have to wonder what the people who designed the thing where thinking," says Philip Coyle, a senior adviser at the Center for Defense Information (CDI) and a former Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Clinton Administration. "It's like you've hired...
...Perhaps boys are floundering because they no longer enjoy undivided attention. Schools now provide boys and girls the same educational resources. Historically, girls overcame harsh inequities and brutal discrimination. Boys have been deprived of nothing. The age-old excuse, "Boys will be boys," is the root of the problem. Boys have to learn responsibility. Then they will succeed. Jeanette V. Novak, Northville, Michigan...
...competition—that is, singing songs that already exist—“So You Think You Can Dance” exposes viewers to the entire process of artistic creation. It reveals the importance of choreography, struggles of rehearsal, and a finished product that is subjected to harsh critique...
...elements of which have a reputation for corruption, Jakarta has worked with the U.S. State Department to create an élite counterterrorism force called Detachment 88. It has taken the lead in fighting J.I., and helped make the arrests in June. Indonesian security forces were once known for employing harsh methods of interrogation. But, today, rather than tossing terrorism suspects in jail indefinitely or torturing them, as is the case with suspects in Iraq or Russia's Chechen Republic, the Indonesian government successfully prosecutes cases against these militants in court, keeping public opinion on Jakarta's side...
...harsh reception? Is it that several decades of sexual liberation and feminism and a decade of Internet dating have fundamentally altered the potency or chemistry of the traditional love story? Or is it more that romance has had its power drained by an industry that is increasingly geared toward films that gush rather than trickle money? Who killed the great American love story...