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...doubt whatsoever. The reasons have everything to do with winning the war. The enemy knows America's weakness--a general aversion to war, stemming largely from a profound concern for the individual. The enemy knows our aversion to casualties led us to withdraw not just from Vietnam but from Somalia and Beirut, where our losses were infinitely smaller...
...still looks good at 66, though his face is fleshier and squarer and seems on pace to merge completely with his neck sometime around 2008. But it's still a face made for acting--all punctuation marks, from those pointy circumflex eyebrows to the profound parentheses on either side of his mouth. Lounging in his favorite suite at a New York City hotel, Nicholson sits in an armchair and drinks coffee and smokes Camel Lights. After a weekend of interviews, his lilting, comforting-yet-unnerving voice is shot to the point that it's just a husky growl, but Nicholson...
...gender imbalance among black law students has had a profound impact on student life, according to black student leaders at the Law School...
...while raised her hand. "I don't get it," she remembers saying, "but from what I could get, I don't like it." The reaction to her unsolicited feedback--the executives realized they needed to stop using corporatespeak if they wanted employees to embrace the new policy--had a profound effect on Burns, who recalls thinking, Hey, I didn't get slapped down. Speaking up has helped Burns, who grew up in the projects in New York City, rise through the ranks from summer intern in 1980 to her position as president of Xerox Business Group Operations and probable successor...
...Growing up in Osaka's rough Nishinari ward, Takei was a small-time punk, pulling pranks such as throwing fireworks through neighbors' windows. Fine art "sounded too sophisticated and profound to me. I felt, like, 'What the hell is art?'" recalls Takei...