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...course, it’s not all guts and instinct. Fitzpatrick has gotten physically bigger since he’s been at Harvard, packing on muscle particularly after the 2003 season. On the field, he credits his development as a player to the position coaches he’s spent time with in his past four years, particularly former offensive coordinator Jay Mills and current assistant coach Dave Cecchini...
...ideologically-motivated stupidity. Jewish scientists fleeing Nazi Europe were a great boon to American academia, and the Pilgrims themselves moved here because continental Europe wasn’t working out for them. Leaving messed-up nations is not just an American tradition—it is the pragmatic instinct upon which this country developed...
...Iraq. Iran launched its program at a time when its three most immediate enemies - the U.S., Israel and Saddam Hussein's Iraq - all held, or were in the process of developing, a strategic nuclear threat. And the drive for strategic parity with (or superiority over) rivals is a basic instinct of all nation-states...
...violence has made it impossible to carry out missions to win the hearts and minds of the locals, most of whom have never warmed to the U.S. presence. The Marines in Ramadi don't use tanks and rarely call in air support; instead, they rely on guile, guts and instinct to hunt down the insurgents. Given the task at hand and the large area of operations, units like Captain Kenney's Golf Company look as if they could use help. But with just 137,000 U.S. troops in Iraq trying to defeat an insurgency that has spread to more than...
Lansing says her method for green-lighting projects is simple: absorb all the data you can, but trust your gut instinct. "I read all the market research and use it as a tool," she says. "But movies are an art form. You have to look into the eyes of a filmmaker and an executive and see their passion...