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...Admiral Fallon brought to the issues he was involved in will be sorely missed," said Senator Russ Feingold, a Wisconsin Democrat and member of the Foreign Relations Committee. "A military axiom is the need to speak truth to power," added Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee's intelligence panel. "And it still seems that smart people who do, end their careers...
...derived from a similar tactic used by protesters last May in support of raising wages for security guards. Word of the protest was spread through campus e-mail lists, with a farcical flyer that asserted, “This war is needed to stimulate our economy and protect our homeland!” “This is about supporting good patriotic values and our God-given right to protect the land where our oil is residing,” said protester and HAWC member Matthew A. Opitz ’10. “I think it?...
Born in Mao's China, Cai knows all about societies in transformation. He revisits Beijing often these days to help design the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympics. But an ambivalence about his burgeoning homeland courses through his art. On the one hand, there's his 1998 piece Borrowing Your Enemy's Arrows--a wooden boat flying a Chinese flag and pierced by hundreds of arrows. It has its sources in the story of a 3rd century Chinese general who had to gather arrows before a battle and did it by surprising the enemy with a predawn flotilla manned...
...agencies], they came here with the idea that we are criminals," he says. "Everyone thinks we are criminals, so they do not help." He insists his village never took up arms against its aggressors, but the conspicuous absence of young men in his group suggests otherwise. Stripped of their homeland and modest wealth, they've almost surely joined the war that no one seems able to stop...
...performance? Then finding great Presidents would be a simple matter of weighing résumés. Take a Democrat like Bill Richardson - experienced in Congress, in the Cabinet, as a diplomat and governor - and have him run against Republican Tom Ridge, a former soldier, governor and Director of Homeland Security, with the winner chosen by a blue-ribbon commission of all-purpose elders. The Danforth-Mitchell commission, perhaps, or O'Connor-Albright. But it has never worked that way, which is why Lincoln's statue occupies a marble temple on the Mall in Washington, while his far more experienced...