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...Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines have changed a great deal already under boomer influence - women, gays. The trouble is that the military, by the nature of its work and code (duty, honor, country, sacrifice) is not exactly in the boomer spirit of things. Vietnam long ago produced a profound split in the generation - the Elite Draft Dodgers v. the Suckers Who Went. A generation that believes it should live forever is not the most effective material to send into battle. The old French decadent said: "As for living, we have servants who do that for us." The privileged boomer...
That mark will be important, if not profound. Rudenstine did what needed to be done, addressing the unglamorous task of modernizing university management. But in other ways, Rudenstine's tenure has stripped Harvard of strong leadership in the presidency and equipped the University with far quieter a voice in American society than his predecessors enjoyed...
...about three things--College, graduation and soccer," Lentz said. "Make no mistake about it, it has a profound political message that is so subtle many might miss it and in that regard it's a lot like Soccer...
...both. Here, after all, is the great champion of small, limited government perpetrating the Louisiana Purchase, arguably the grandest exercise of extra-constitutional Executive power in American history. But what else should we expect from the founder whose great vision of America was the Empire of Liberty, as profound an oxymoron as political theory can provide...
...closed at 10,609 last week], so I don't think it is predictive to say simply that if the Dow triples, it is going to crash. In the past 18 years, the Dow has risen by a factor of 14. What we're saying is that something profound is going...