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...signs are favorable. Our defense spending equals 36% of the world's total military spending. We engage in 40% of the world's Internet traffic and produce 70% of Nobel prizewinners. We are probably more powerful relative to other states than any other nation has been since the Roman Empire. But though we had a Grand Strategy that saw us successfully through the cold war, we have been without one since it ended. Now it is time to find another...
...pregnant woman he escorted down. He was back at work the next day. "He said working that high up took some getting used to at first, but he found it peaceful, his escape," says his son Vincent, one of Camaj's three children. On days off, Camaj, a Roman Catholic Albanian, also liked to keep things clean and orderly around the house, mowing the grass, renovating the kitchen and, above all, spending time with his family, from whom he originally hid the nature of his risky job. When he started work at the World Trade Center in 1973, he told...
...that examines the history of terrorism. His new book, to be titled "The Conquest of Terror," will examine the historical roots of terrorism since ancient times and show why it has been, though immensely destructive, an ultimately failed tactic. Carr will look at specific acts of terrorism from the Roman Empire through the Middle Ages, to more recent events in United States history, including acts committed during the War of 1812 when the British burned the White House and attacked civilians, William Sherman's declaration of "total war" on the South during the Civil War, through wars waged against civilians...
...that what really scandalizes the so-called wisdom of the world is the message of the cross. If Christians really faced up to the facts of Jesus' story, they would be shocked. It is a radical tale: God revealed himself in inauspicious circumstances--in a provincial backwater of the Roman Empire and among a beleaguered people, the Israelites. Through his ministry and death, Jesus offered humankind a radical vision of forgiveness and freedom from revenge. To a world obsessed with power, that is outrageous. An omnipotent God incarnate who relinquishes his power and dies an ignominious death in order that...
...Roman Altshuler ’01—an alum who has not yet been removed from the e-mail list—immediately responded with a plea to Quincy-dwellers not to display the flag...