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...decision not to beat the Soviet armies to Berlin. And, I expect, years from now, historians will still ask if we should not have fought longer and destroyed more of the Iraqi army. Critics argue that we should have widened our war aims to include seizing Baghdad and driv ing Saddam Hussein from power. The critics include even my predecessor as Chairman, Admiral William J. Crowe Jr., who testified in Congress for continued sanctions and against going to war; but in his memoirs he argues that we should have continued fighting and expanded the mission to go after Saddam Hussein...
There's nothing radical about most of these independent films; they're call-ing cards for directors with Hollywood dreams. They take old-fashioned genres and show the big boys how to do it in an even more old-fashioned way: small, smart and cheap. For these pictures are the soapbox racers that dare to compete against the sleek but bland big-studio vehicles. And who wouldn't prefer the Indie 500 to Hollywood's Formula...
...liners, stories and yelling made up the verbal interaction, and high-fives and back-patting on a scale I had not seen since Little League were added at appropriate times. While there is nothing wrong with any of these things--I do not pretend to be anti-high-five-ing--it was so linked with the way the operation ran that I did not see how you could fit in acting differently. But while that clearly made for a situation where a women might feel uncomfortable, it was the dialogue that took place that was appalling...
Placed squarely between Widener Library and Boylston Hall is a gray sculpture that looks like some kind of turtle-lion hybrid. It's Ch'ing Dynasty original, carved before 1821, and donated in 1936 by the Harvard Club of Shanghai...
...saddened to read of the pass- ing of one of the world's premier magazine journalists, Otto Friedrich [TO OUR READERS, May 8]. As a historical writer, I was enormously impressed by his highly readable and brilliantly analytical articles on the outbreak and consequences of World War II. I recommend that all thoughtful citizens read his insightful contribution to Time's 50th-anniversary issue on World War II [Aug. 28, 1989] at least twice...