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...track down the logic for the hike is unsatisfying. "Washington opened the sluice gates of military spending after the 9/11 attacks primarily not because it was the appropriate thing to do strategically but because it was something the country could do when something had to be done," military scholar Richard Betts wrote in Foreign Affairs in 2007. Neither Presidents nor lawmakers want to be branded unpatriotic by trying to cut defense spending, a non sequitur if there ever was one. Many lawmakers cloak their advocacy for hometown weapons production in such red, white and blue bunting...
...decided contrast to this shadowy room is the location of the bulk of the story’s chapters, in which the aforementioned pair of men reappear as Richard Elster, a former scholar employed by the military to “conceptualize,” and Jimmy Finley, the young filmmaker who wishes to record Elster’s account of his experience in one, long take. After initial resistance to the idea, Elster invites Jimmy to stay with him in the vast remoteness of a Western desert—“Not a long visit, he?...
...Maybe the last one, ˝Gracias.˝ I celebrate 60 years of my career with it, and I wanted to play important music for me. For the occasion, I invited different musicians like Richard Bona, Avishay Coher, and Trilok Gurtu. I would also recommend my first solo album, “Magia Negra”; with this one, young people will know that we used to listen to music from all around the world. On “Magia Negra” we played North American music with Bossa Nova influences. That was what we used to listen...
...while U.S.-Pakistan relations are better now, they are still fraught. As U.S. special envoy Richard Holbrooke, a veteran of the Balkans and other bruising diplomatic acts, remarked wearily on Feb. 18, during his seventh swing through Islamabad, "This is the most complicated relation with an ally that I've ever experienced. I don't want to mislead you; it's still fragile...
West, playing in the No. 1 slot, easily defeated his opponent in straight sets, but Cohen had to dig deeper and pull out the win in a decisive fifth game. Juniors Richard Hill and J. Reed Endresen both pulled off gritty five-set wins as well...