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...stories Baker has recorded bring to mind a phrase used in bitter irony by draftees in Viet Nam, who hoped to survive their tours and return to what they called "the world." The officers quoted here may return to the world after duty hours, but they sure don't work there. "My job was photographing dead people, and taking their fingerprints," one of Baker's cops says. "Holding dead hands, breaking off the fingers when they're too stiff to manage...
...deep is Reagan's commitment to SDI that there was a wrangle among the Americans over whether to include the seemingly innocuous reference to the January communiqué. The reason: that earlier document proclaimed the objective of "preventing an arms race in space," and Reagan has never liked that phrase because it sounds like an aspersion...
...Australia won that series 4-0 and it's been fee-fi-fo-fum ever since, especially under the ruthless Steve Waugh, who coined the phrase "mental disintegration" to describe how Australia tries to unsettle and eventually demoralize its rivals. Last year, Waugh handed over to Ponting, a prodigy from Launceston, Tasmania. Despite making some diplomatic noises, Ponting has kept the approach rolling. "That's what it's all about," said the captain, resplendent in gray suit and pink shirt, shortly before boarding a plane in Brisbane for London on June 4. "Everything we do is based on applying pressure...
Just four days later, Summers would speak at a now-infamous conference at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He would attempt to explain the scarcity of women on elite science faculties. He would use the phrase “intrinsic aptitude.†And, suddenly, the future was on hold...
Though he has tried hard to distance himself from the remarks that sparked his current troubles, Summers is unlikely to ever fully shed the phrase “intrinsic aptitude†from his legacy. It’s a reality that can’t sit well with the president. Speaking to students in Lowell House this spring, Summers said, “I can tell you from fairly extensive personal experience, people cannot catch up fully from derogatory, untrue stories merely through their correction...