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Sione loves rugby. He's loved rugby since age four, when he began playing the sport with coconuts and oranges in his southwest Pacific jungle home. He will eagerly reconstruct every game since then with juice glasses in the Eliot House dining hall at the drop of a fork...
...range of 10 ft. without having once seen each other. It is a war of leg-shearing booby traps and dung-smeared punji stakes, of professional skill and personal courage. It is also a war that is tailor-made for a writer like S.L.A. Marshall, who can reconstruct a small-unit action so that it takes on the intimate immediacy of a leech beneath a platoon sergeant's collar...
...administration can pursue a more constructive alternative to bombing the north by trying to reconstruct the south. This will still involve casualties but at less risk of world war and with a chance of somewhat diminishing the international odium we have brought upon ourselves. While our barbarity merely rouses fear and hatred that we can learn to live with, our psychological miscalculation seems stupid. Stupidity in a leader arouses distrust in followers all around the world...
...been involved in peace feelers from Hanoi. The nature and tone of that meeting are not at issue; previous stories made clear that it was hostile and bitter. Since the tension between the President and the Senator kept growing-and is of national political significance-we tried to reconstruct the details of the meeting via many conversations that White House Correspondent Hugh Sidey had with sources close to the Johnson and Kennedy camps...
Aphoristic Armory. McLuhan himself works his readers over with aphorisms and jokes. "If we were to dispose of the city right now," he says, "future societies would reconstruct them, like so many Williamsburgs." Of Renaissance art, which he blames for placing Western man "outside the frame of reference," he says: "A piazza for everything and everything in its piazza." Telstar, movies and jetliners have generated "a worldpool of information"; the clash of cultures in the modern world is a "collide-oscope"; television programming is "the charge of the light brigade." As a result of the information explosion occasioned by modern...