Word: self-doubt
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Ultimately, the film delivers a certain honesty and sensitivity that one cannot help but admire--especially by the harsh reality of the final scene, where the present in Bosnia comes painfully to the fore. For the movie admits, implicitly, a self-doubt, a possibility of failure, but one that encourages further introspection: such is the nature of serious search, a journey in the modern world...
Even as Dugan was rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, word reached President Clinton, campaigning in New Hampshire. The incident was not unexpected; when the President embarked on his robust Bosnia policy, he knew that casualties were inevitable. Fatalities, however, sometimes provoke spasms of American self-doubt; which is perhaps why, in nearly the same breath as offering his "deepest sympathies," Clinton restated his resolve to stay on course. Asked if he had second thoughts about the mission, the President said, "No, not at all. I told the American people before it started that the place...
...have never in my life seen him so torn up about something," admits Powell's son Michael. "You have to remember, this is a soldier. This is a warrior, who does not like walking away from a fight. It's not fear; it's not self-doubt. Every instinct in his bones says...
...liking" for Harvard, and was pleased to speak here this week. Yet Durang's years at Harvard were mostly unhappy and unproductive. Though he liked Harvard and the area, Durang found it impossible to write as easily as he had in high school. In addition to the usual self-doubt that most freshman experience, Durang was overwhelmed by the authoritarian tone of Harvard courses: "Certain Harvard classes...present things as if they were the most important thing, and I would sort of go, oh well, that must be the most important, and whatever I had to say or think...
...real anguish remaining at the heart of this vexed relationship will never be easily washed away, of course. The fact that America lost a cause draped in the noblest rhetoric but fought on cynical and divisive terms produced a sense of lingering self-doubt that may never vanish. In a significant way, though, the principles for which the war was waged are ascendant today in Vietnam. The free-market spirit of Saigon is what counts, not the Marxist maunderings of some old men in Hanoi. The Vietnamese, who lost many more lives than Americans did along the streets, rivers...