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Early-morning light spills into the physical-therapy room at Walter Reed, as wounded soldiers sweat and grimace aboard stationary bicycles. Each man is steadily grinding out the miles with a single leg, his crutches leaning against a nearby wall. This morning happy-go-lucky PFC Wyatt meets with Joseph Miller, the hospital's chief prosthetist, who makes wounded soldiers close to whole again with man-made arms and legs. The types of wounds coming back from Iraq--blast and shrapnel injuries--make his job tougher. "Those kinds of injuries mean more infections and multiple surgeries," he says. Wyatt nods...
...commitment and frighten off Iraqi recruits. And Bush needs to find adequate replacements before tired G.I.s are due to rotate home next spring, smack in the middle of his re-election campaign. Yet rushing ill-trained, ill-equipped Iraqis into the breach could create new problems. Senator Joseph Biden, senior Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, says the Administration's "stampede" to put locals in charge of pacifying Iraq "runs the risk of having the house of cards come down [if] the Iraqi people not only conclude that we can't do it but that those who are working...
Though little-known and often forgotten over the years, the museum has accumulated an impressive collection of artwork, especially in Austrian Secession art, German expressionism, 1920s abstraction and Bauhaus art. Comprehensive collections of work by Joseph Beuys, Lyonel Feninger and Walter Gropius are among the finest in the world. Although it also maintains collections of classical Renaissance and Baroque work, the Busch-Reisinger has recently focused on obtaining more post-war and contemporary art from German-speaking Europe...
Nowadays the Busch-Reisinger Museum serves as a “tableau vivant for the mutual exchange of ideas…nowhere in the country is there another place to study consecutively German art,” said Joseph L. Koerner, professor of history of art at the University College in London. It is unique as “a teaching museum that allows American students to learn and understand the art and culture of the countries of Central Europe,” says Becking...
...Joseph S. Nye Jr., dean of the KSG, pointed out that men have a tendency to use coercion in order to achieve control—a phenomenon Nye deems “hard power”—while women generally exude influence through consensus building—or “soft power.”Last night’s panelists used their personal experiences to illustrate what they perceive as a unique feminine ability for bringing about peace...