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...awesome as it is to have a stack of Advising Fortnight notepads for jotting down thoughts about how ridiculous Advising Fortnight is, we think we'd prefer this money get spent on... well, practically anything. Here's what came to our heads in the span of 30 seconds...
Robert Gates The 22nd Secretary of Defense has served eight Presidents and is a past TIME 100 honoree In an eight-month span, Army Major General Mark Graham lost one son to suicide and the other to an IED in Iraq. By launching innovative programs and openly confronting his family's pain, Graham has become a leader in the campaign to reduce the Army's increasing suicide rate...
...Without a doubt, Nick promptly remounts his horse and scores five goals in the span of time UConn scores one. With two minutes left in the third chukker, Harvard is now only two goals behind UConn’s thirteen...
...jungle is brutal but not particularly sad. Somewhere around the time television got big, though, the newspaper birthrate fell close to zero; after that, every death was one step closer to extinction. You see the difference in the history of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Its 146-year life span is a tale of dead start-ups, relaunches, mergers, fierce competition--all bloody and robust and healthy. Now the P-I is gone but for a skeleton crew of Web producers and opinion writers, and there won't be another paper along to replace it. With the Seattle Times also struggling...
...what exactly is NATO's purpose? That question hangs like a cloud of existential angst over the Atlantic Alliance's 60th birthday celebration this weekend. The festivities, which will span the Franco-German border, are suffused with the symbolism of a Cold War that brought NATO into being but whose end left the Alliance with no clear mission or identity. Hence the title of this anniversary summit: "NATO in 2020: What Lies Ahead...