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...stormed out of school forever. After quitting a Roman Catholic academy, where white pupils harassed him because he was black, and then a vocational program he considered academically worthless, he made one last try at a public high school. But when he proudly submitted a 20-page report on Napoleon, the teacher accused him of having it ghostwritten by an older sister. That confrontation ended with Wilson defiantly shredding the essay. "The next day," he recalls, "I went and played basketball outside the principal's window, obviously in the unconscious hope someone would ask why I wasn't in class...
Democracy's verdict can be harsh, even for its friends. Salvadoran President Jose Napoleon Duarte's ruling Christian Democratic Party, which has steered an erratic course between murderous foes on the left and the right, rediscovered that truth last week when it was roundly rejected at the ballot box. Almost 1 million Salvadoran voters braved guerrilla intimidation to oust the Christian Democrats from power and give control of the 60-seat Assembly to the ultraconservative Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), which in the past has been associated with right-wing death squads...
...nervously tightened his laces. Later he would describe the battle raging in his head as he skated to the center of the rink, one voice goading, "This is it! This is it!" while another soothed, "You know what to do." When the elaborate music of Carmine Coppola's Napoleon filled the Saddledome, Boitano inhaled deeply, then focused his 16 years of training on the moment...
Read this way, European history looks subtly different. Supposedly decisive battles such as the destruction of the Spanish armada in 1588 or Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo in 1815 seem instead to be foregone conclusions, the visible death throes of nations that had previously mismanaged or squandered their resources. Kennedy does not subscribe to the "Great Man" theory of history. He acknowledges that his account of the Napoleonic wars tends "to downplay the more personal aspects of this story, such as Napoleon's own increasing lethargy and self-delusion." But the author insists that inspiring < leaders or brilliant generals...
...Spain, thanks to her veteran infantry and American gold, tried to achieve European hegemony, but failed when she could not organize her resources successfully. Next came France's turn as the world's greatest power, but her economy could not support the expensive wars of Louis XIV and later Napoleon. England then assumed control, capturing a vast commercial empire through industrialization and a superior navy...