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...adjusting to civilian life after a brilliant career in the military. "Obama has appointed all these high-powered envoys like [Richard] Holbrooke and [George] Mitchell, but we don't know who's going to really be in charge of setting the foreign policy priorities," says a prominent foreign policy realist who admires Jones. "That should be Jim's job. But he's throwing off a sense of uncertainty." Several sources say Jones seems to attend meetings rather than lead them. "He needs to drive the agenda," the foreign policy expert adds. "He has to be first among equals - the fact...
Overall I think I feel safer in that we have amazing people here who are really dedicated. Every one of us is doing everything we can. I think it's made us more vigilant. On the other hand, I'm a realist, and I still can't figure out what there is to prevent someone from bringing a small arsenal onto campus and doing whatever he or she wants...
...Based on a true story, The Vagrants is a bleak masterpiece, written without sentimentality, its anger a cold, controlled fury rather than a shrill rage. The surface of its unshowy prose disguises an enormous achievement for the realist political novel. Li's relentless calibration of the cost paid by the innocent to sustain a dehumanizing and brutal sociopolitical order marks it as a milestone in the literature of oppressed, extinguished lives...
KENRIC TAM ’12: THE REALIST...
...establishment hated Wyeth for much of his career. He was a regionalist and a realist when the vogue was abstract expressionism, a plainspoken farmer among chain smoking wildmen. He was the country mouse; they were the city mice. He had nothing new to show them, and they had no time...