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...Prawer Jhabvala, 78, continue. Just as Merchant-Ivory ignored the death notices for the movie traditions of craftsmanship and delicacy, and revived them for more than 40 years, it would be appropriate, and heroic, for the surviving partners to go on making fine films about the good manners of sad and complicated people...
...care"?but I do not agree that the A.F.P. has a morale problem. Poor equipment, yes, but not low morale. I was in the A.F.P. for 30 years, and I know that the Filipino soldier is highly motivated and fights without grumbling, even if he is short of equipment. Sad to say, the revolving-door policy of the President in appointing a short-term A.F.P. Chief of Staff has diluted the authority of the top brass. Congress should enact a law giving the A.F.P. Chief of Staff a definite term so he will have enough time to plan...
...supposed to be another day of adjusting, the last day before we started classes at Harvard, before our new, grown-up lives began. Instead it was a day that ushered fear and instability into the world, and into our futures. We stood in the yard, sad and bewildered...
...people have this attitude that they also need to learn something new or find a way to get ahead in school. To me, it's grossly unfortunate, because kids are so stressed out. The fact that they have to perform at camp as well is a little sad," she laments. "They'll go to tennis camp one week, computer camp another and acting class for a third, and then their parents say, 'He's got a week open in July before a family vacation. What kind of camp can we shove in then?'" Soschin has no problem with specialized camps...
...most of every moment. That West Point life recovered its routines quickly after 9/11--albeit with a new, underlying urgency--seemed right to her: the civilian world got too wrapped up in sorrow and memory and nerves rubbed raw. "I think one of the things that made people so sad outside of West Point," she says, "was that they simply were kicked off of their routines...