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...their organizations and by softening his stance toward India, particularly on the question of the disputed territory of Kashmir. He has declared a unilateral cease-fire along the line dividing Pakistani and Indian forces in Kashmir and has suggested that he may be willing to relent on Pakistan's long-held demand that Kashmir's future be determined by a plebiscite. Pakistani investigators identified one of the Dec. 25 attackers as a 23-year-old militant from Pakistan-controlled Kashmir after he left a gruesome calling card at the bomb site: his face, which was blown off intact...
...where Rumsfeld really jerked the Army's chain was in reversing the long-held faith that the U.S. must apply overwhelming power overseas--or none at all. That doctrine, named after Secretary of State Colin Powell, was one of the lessons taken away by the men who fought as young officers in Vietnam. When those lieutenants and captains ripened into colonels and generals, they made the all-or-nothing Army the only kind America would field. By the early 1990s, as the U.S. began to face peskier enemies overseas, the doctrine began to unravel. Discussing how to apply force...
...other legislators introduced a massive program to encourage equal funding for Maori and English-speaking schools, so that parents wishing to have their children grow up within the backdrop of long-held traditions felt encouraged...
...clear something isn't quite right. Fidgeting in her chair, doing her best to force a smile, she seems irritable, almost frosty, her normally cottony-soft drawl showing sharper edges. "I don't want to talk about my private life at all," she coolly commands, evidently reversing her long-held policy of discussing absolutely anything with the press, no matter how intimate (like chatting in W magazine last August about losing her virginity to Timberlake or, last week, sobbing about their breakup on U.S. TV). "I used to be a lot more open," she explains, warming slightly. "But I didn...
Because free speech almost always conflicts with the status quo, it is one of the most precious commodities of the academic community. In the absence of free expression, long-held views are not easily challenged, and individuals can blindly hold their own preconceptions without submitting them to critique in the continuing search for truth. Minority voices—no matter how much we disagree with their principles and no matter how much they irritate us—must be tolerated so that the benefits of free speech will be maintained...