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...there were in fact guilty men who must answer for the larger mystery the Mullens faced. Implicit in Friendly Fire is the understanding that Vietnam was more than a tragic mistake, an error in the limited sense that the shell which exploded in the trees above Hill 76 and killed Michael Mullen was an error. It defies logic to believe that the long years of blood and napalm were merely a tragic series of mistakes dizzily succeeding each other. Men, powerful, arrogant and lying men, plucked Michael Mullen out of graduate school and put him on Hill 76. The piece...
...helped prevent another war. It has also increased American influence throughout the region and, for better or worse, brought Soviet influence to its lowest point in two decades. These achievements have made the U.S. the only nation generally accepted by all sides as the potential Middle East peacemaker. Implicit in Secretary of State Kissinger's commitment to the Middle East is the assumption that massive material and diplomatic support is justified by the expectation that peace can be achieved within a comparatively short time...
Harvard's dishonest waiver policy compounds the offense. The Admissions Office routinely sends applicants a form permitting them to cede the right to view their admissions file once they reach Harvard. Despite the implicit pressure on them, only half the applicants waive their rights. Yet all students are then denied access to their admission files...
...been said that no matter where Aalto worked, he carried Finland in his bones, just as James Joyce carried Ireland. Perhaps so. It is a pity for the rest of the world that so much of Aalto"s work is in remote Finland. For a serious lesson is implicit in all his work: great architecture can be for people. His countrymen understood that. They would crowd into tour buses, pass by his office and proudly listen to the guide say, "That is where Alvar Aalto works...
...page, he describes Willis Reed pondering "how a rabbit does it," and on the following, he sums up the 1973 championship with the old saw, "Vicariously experiencing the victory can't compare to being Number One." The maudlin cliches of the sports world are not geared toward the cynicism implicit in Bradley's off-beat anecdotes. There is a contradiction between his seasoned insight into professional basketball and the adolescent spirit of his language. With this parrot squawking denials on his shoulder, Bradley's Life on the Run seems not as desperate as he tries to make...