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...Keeping the lights on in Ankara seems to be more important than the prospect of an Iranian nuke. Little wonder after the Bush administration stunned the world with a National Intelligence Estimate that concluded Iran had given up building a bomb...
Less admirable than this loyalty is the Australian fetish of antielitism. If you want to nuke an enemy, call him an elitist, especially if he is an intellectual. The word is empty, since no society, including Australia's, has ever been able to function without elites of skill, intelligence and ordinary competence. Yet Australians can rarely bring themselves to say they value human superiority. It sounds undemocratic...
...weighs 135 pounds and wears eyeglasses. Barclay was active on the MIT Parliamentary Debate Team. One MIT student who has debated with him said he is a powerful debater famous for his joke debate topics. “His favorite joke was that ‘the U.S. should nuke the moon,’” said MIT freshman Adam J. Goldstein. Goldstein said that members of the debate team are circulating posters seeking information about Barclay’s whereabouts, and that an e-mail from his mother had been sent out to all the dorms. Harvard...
...charity in the War on Terror—we’re trying to free people,” she said. “Iraq is like our light in the backyard trying to catch a moth. You can get all the moths in one and then you can nuke them. We’re a charitable people, we could have ended this a long time ago.” HRC President Jeffrey Kwong ’09 said the Lincoln Day celebration was held to honor both Abraham Lincoln and Black History Month. He said Parker could be viewed...
More important, Perot demanded much greater autonomy for EDS than Smith was prepared to grant. When Perot became impatient with the pace of change at GM and began carping publicly about the need to "nuke the GM system" and "teach an elephant to tapdance," the clash of personalities and cultures became increasingly intolerable. Ominously for Smith, the dispute threatened to escalate into a battle for control of GM. Says a source close to the conflict: "The question for the board was how it could have good corporate governance with two chief executive officers...