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...outset, I should state that that I do not believe that any country has the moral right to impose its will on a sovereign state by military force. Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait was--to paraphrase President Bush--both deplorable and wrong...
...trampling the film's fragile comedic atmosphere. Reigning in Brando under such stringent tolerances would be a challenge for even the most accomplished director, a task clearly beyond the abilities of Bergman. He might be comforted by the knowledge that he practically doomed himself to failure right from the outset. Bergman made the already difficult task of executing an intelligent farce of The Godfather even more trying by casting in The Freshman's piviotal role the same figure he is attempting to parody...
Souter makes it clear from the outset that hewill not come down on either side of the argument,disqualifying himself from that task because he isnot a judicial expert...
...outset of the trial in March, Marcos pleaded, "If I am to be tried here, I pray that I will be treated like an ordinary American seeking justice." An extraordinary kind of ordinary...
...students have nicknamed Failure 101. They are encouraged to build the tallest structure possible out of ice-cream-bar sticks, then to look for "the insight in every failure. Those who end up with the highest projects went through the most failures. Whoever followed a fixed idea from the outset never finished first...