Word: massing
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...books.” When he was not able to find what he was looking for, he decided to create one himself, he said. Lotman then conducted interviews with local merchants, street performers, and Harvard graduates, including John H. Updike ’54 and former Mass. Governor William F. Weld ’66. When Albert R. LaFarge of the Albert LaFarge literary agency saw Lotman’s proposal, he said that he “instantly” knew that it should be published. “I believe every great book begins with a community...
...believe that the health of a society depends in large part on citizen’s intelligent skepticism—unwillingness to merely accept what is put before it as “gospel” (e.g., there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq because there must be, or because it is “obvious,” or because Saddam says so; ...) and demanding more and better evidence. But there ought to be an articulatable and reasoned distinction between such wise and helpful skepticism and obsessive and irrational denialism...
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...other Western nations are losing the heart for battle. In the Pashtun strongholds of Afghanistan, it is now perceived to be a good idea for a tribe to start siding with the Taliban, even though members of the tribe may not agree with their harsh medievalism. A critical mass is gathering, experts say. Elders who belong to once neutral tribes in Kandahar province are now telling their youths to take up arms against the foreign invaders, as their fathers did back in the 1980s against the Red Army. In Tahkt-e-Pul, on the edges of Kandahar city, an influential...
...town hall meeting in April, Smith called for a broad-based restructuring of FAS to close a $220 million deficit over the next two years. In May, $77 million of possible savings proposed by FAS units were implemented in a sweeping round of cuts, which later included mass layoffs for staff. Smith charged six working groups with identifying the remaining $143 million. Those groups have seen varying degrees of progress since their creation...