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...from the past. "Now the future is everything." Still, he believes that the world is in many ways better off than before the war. He is glad in retrospect that the Americans won the war--a feeling expressed by many Japanese his age. Under the military regime, Japan's spirit would have perished, he says. Japan needed democracy, and it took losing the war to achieve...
...physical vigor is the least part of the morning's display. A visitor is struck more by his determined spirit. Ronald Reagan is marching on. Cancer has been found and excised, and he believes in mind and heart that he has been cleansed of the disease. There is no crack in the armor. At no time in 34 minutes of conversation does a shadow cross his eyes. The words mortality and cancer come quietly and without theatrics...
...participants, the gathering created a synergy that transcended the protests and the eye-glazing speeches. Women not only shared their common experience of oppression and inequity but reveled in positive personal qualities: determination, humor, intelligence. Many felt that it would only be a matter of time before "the spirit of Nairobi" would translate into action back home. "There has been tremendous change," said Chafika Sellami-Meslem, an Algerian who served as deputy secretary-general of the conference. "Women's issues can no longer be dismissed by the governments of the world, and it would not have happened without the Decade...
...error that the lecturer had made. She raced through Oxford's three-year course in two years. Her test papers were spun out with little apparent need to pause over the most puzzling problems. "I think while I write," she explains with a shrug. Mathematics appeals to her spirit of discovery, she says, because "it's all to do with how things fit into interesting patterns and then working out how and why they...
...introduce our office, the Harvard University Blended Resolution Institutional Services (HUBRIS). Since the days of President McKinley, we’ve been the point-people behind some of the most successful operations in history. Spirit of Saint-Louis? We built it. Catch-22? We wrote it. Bay of Pigs? Not us. As keepers of Harvard’s substantial intellectual, financial, and physical resources, we have the power to deploy solutions-oriented Harvard-affiliates to trouble spots around the world. In this case, we’ll save on airfare...