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...make an entire 2 1/2-hr. movie in the spirit of Saving Private Ryan's unforgettably horrific D-day sequence--and without its "good war" rationale. No such glory attaches to Somalia. The country is today, as Bruckheimer notes, "exactly as we left it," still starving, still sunk in hopeless anarchy. Worse were the implications that the world's only superpower was unwilling to fight in defense of hard-to-explain principles. Osama bin Laden has specifically cited our Somalian retreat as an inspiration for his depredations...
This allergic reaction first surfaced during the hopeless inanity of prefrosh weekend. There I sat, in the absurd Harvard first-year dining hall, dreading what I sensed I would soon be doing with the motley, shoddily constructed yarn-ball, which organizers sickeningly referred to as a “Warm Fuzzy.” Slowly and deliberately, with saccharine good humor and effortless Harvardese, our emcee gave the instructions for the gruesome “getting-to-know-you” game that helped put me off of people for good (and vice versa...
...tell ourselves the truth must out, my translator and I. Tell the world and help should come. Stumbling over graves, interviewing the hopeless, taking pictures of the dead. That's the discipline. That's my training. There's a steely war reporters bravery to that. Strange, because it feels like perfect cowardice...
Lance Bass: In a way, I’m like Kevin—a kind of hopeless romantic. But I think that’s where it ends. I’d say we differ in the lengths that we would go to find a girl again. If I lost someone it’s “oh well, that?...
...protect his isolation. He lied to his closest staff members, to his Cabinet, to the nation, to the world. The Nixon staff lied to one another and to the President. Then they wiretapped one another, stole one another's files, examined one another's phone records, all in a hopeless effort to find out the truth under the layers of lies. It was, Reeves writes, "a White House of lies, a house organized for deception...even the insiders themselves could no longer penetrate to reality." Two of the most startling examples of the culture of deception occurred at summit meetings...