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...wanted a preacher handy--like the time he talked Graham into flying to a convention with him because the weather was so bad, he thought the plane might crash. Having entered office in the shadow of the Kennedy assassination, Johnson was conscious of how a President's death can shatter a country. Long before his Administration collapsed and he announced that he would not seek a second term in 1968, Johnson privately told Graham what he was thinking. "It was in the family dining room," Graham recalled, where Johnson reviewed his family's medical history; he had had a secret...
...book, The China Fantasy, the idea that China will evolve into a democracy as its middle class grows continues to underlie the U.S.'s China policy, providing the central rationale for maintaining close ties with what is, after all, an unapologetically authoritarian regime. But China's Me generation could shatter such long-held assumptions. As the chief beneficiaries of China's economic success, young professionals have more and more tied up in preserving the status quo. The last thing they want is a populist politician winning over the country's hundreds of millions of have-nots on a rural-reform...
...Zone, which has already lost its status as a relative safe haven in Baghdad. Mortars fall there almost daily, usually in swift barrages that sometimes kill people in ones and twos. But even 30 minutes of sustained, aimed mortar fire could kill dozens in one stroke as well as shatter official Iraqi buildings that represent the only meaningful display of governmental order in the country...
SAMARRA, IRAQ Bombs shatter two minarets of Shi'ite shrine...
When she arrived at Harvard, Amy R. Klein ’07 found that many of her female classmates were “very polite, often shy, very well put-together, and only expressive to a certain extent.” Klein decided that she would shatter the stereotype. “I wanted to provide a different image of what a female Harvard student was,” the Lowell House English concentrator says. “Female children are often encouraged not to shout, not to make a lot of noise, not to scream,” says...