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...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 to Bosnia in 1994, Madeleine Albright, then Bill Clinton's U.N. ambassador, famously asked Powell, "What's the point of having this superb military that you're always talking about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Donald Rumsfeld: Secretary Of War Donald Rumsfeld | 12/29/2003 | See Source »

...Harvard men’s hockey team snapped a recent 2-8-1 skid with its most inspired hockey of the season. The Crimson dominated Brown in all facets of Friday’s one-sided affair, and hung on against a tough team and an even peskier goaltender on Saturday to advance to the quarterfinals of the ECAC tournament in Lake Placid...

Author: By Timothy M. Mcdonald, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Hockey Notebook: Grumet-Morris, Cavanagh Line Prove Key for Harvard | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

...tried to spy on him. Of course there's one other, contradictory theory--that the leak happened with Jiang's approval, as a way to gain leverage on contentious issues in the coming summit. Either way, the deep-rooted differences between China and the U.S. will probably prove far peskier to resolve than the bugging incident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Intrigue: Bugs On Jiang's Plane? Shush | 2/18/2002 | See Source »

...Yale proved peskier than that, however, holding Harvard's explosive offense to one more touchdown and a field goal for the rest of the contest...

Author: By Rob Cacace, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Unforgettable: The Game of 1997 | 11/17/2000 | See Source »

...Little Communicator is at it again. As Republican spin doctors and political handlers scurry about the landscape trying to use "family values" to shore up President Bush's eroding base among conservatives and divert attention from peskier concerns such as the deficit, the Vice President must beat the populist drum on cultural and moral matters. To a standing ovation from the annual Southern Baptist Convention in Indianapolis last week, Quayle declared that the hoots of nationwide amusement at his Murphy Brown efforts were a "badge of honor." A "cultural elite," cynical and relativistic, the same folk Spiro Agnew used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The NEA: Trampled Again | 6/22/1992 | See Source »

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