Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...still benumbing to consider. The story, when finally told, of how the Israelis adapted their E-2C Hawkeye surveillance planes to take out the Syrian MiGs is bound to enter national legend. Descriptions of what the new equipment can do are spellbinding: ECMs, HUDs, jamming and antijamming devices; "smart" bombs and "tracer lines." So graceful are the arcs on the maps, so precise the computers, it is mortifying to note how easily one gets caught up in such things, thereby forgetting (perhaps conveniently) that their consequences are thousands dead, tens of thousands homeless...
Some of the SAM sites were probably wiped out by Maverick air-to-surface missiles, or "smart" bombs, some of which are guided along a pinpoint beam of laser light to within a few feet of the target. They are comparatively slow, but still accurate...
...Clinton, educated at Yale and Oxford, had picked up a reputation with many back home in Arkansas as an effete snob. He was unseated in 1980 by Republican Frank White, who portrayed himself as the down-home candidate. This time Clinton ran as a man who was not too smart to listen to the people. He won the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in a runoff and faces a November rematch with White...
...Rhodes at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y.: "Creative leadership is essential if we are to break out of the corrosive melancholy that seems to have afflicted us of late. I'm aware, of course, that leaders are out of fashion today. They are either incompetent or too smart. The few who aren't too weak are too strong. We have a national attitude of ambivalence and skepticism. We're for a sense of purpose, but against any particular direction. I like John Gardner's story of the wife who read the fortune-telling card her husband...
...classifiable period in Harvard's history may take shape in the years just abused, though it's unclear what the sources of that freshness will be, and the-worry persists that the College could continue down this bloodless, path, deteriorating someday into a UMass for smart people. Which would be a shame, for, despite its worst excesses, Harvard has always been exceedingly special-even in the relatively blast period of my education, the College meant many wonderful things. Enough wonderful things, in fact, that I refuse to go out moping, and instead want to end by singing...