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...urge them, as he recounts in his journal, to continue. When they had arrived at the edge of this plunging valley, Caley noted that it seemed "to bid defiance to any man." Going down was brave, says Ian Brown, who leads the Mount Tomah group. A modest, quietly spoken man with a wry sense of humor, he was one of the three men who in 1997 became the first Australians to walk unassisted to the South Pole. "Then again," he adds, "he probably saw that ridge over there as leading to Tomah and thought, if we get across...
President Bush has spoken in recent weeks of how he plans to spend the "political capital" accumulated during the election on his policy priorities. Domestically, his party's control of both chambers of congress certainly loosens restraints on the president's pursuit of his legislative agenda. But the challenges posed by four major foreign policy crises are made more acute by the fact that the president's "political capital" is not denominated in a convertible currency - his election victory has done nothing to alter the skepticism of many of Washington's European, Asian and Arab allies over Bush administration policies...
Thailand's revered monarch rarely comments on affairs of state. But following the surge in violence in the deep south that was sparked by the deaths in October of 85 Muslim protesters in the custody of security forces, both King Bhumibol Adulyadej and his wife, Queen Sirikit, have spoken out. On Wednesday, in a speech broadcast to the nation, the King told a gathering of military and police generals in Bangkok that they must adopt softer tactics to handle the unrest?and warned that if they do not "manage the situation properly" the nation may "fall into ruin." The previous...
...various occasions, Mansfield said he has spoken up “in defense of academic standards” in response to policies enforced by liberals running the University. Mansfield said that rampant grade inflation, a chaotic curriculum and a profusion of easy courses are issues that he has criticized at Harvard...
They’re words that have, over the course of a century of football, become an unmistakable part of the sport’s vernacular. But in recent seasons, the phrase all but disappeared from Cambridge, prompting confusion on those few occasions it was muttered, as if spoken in a foreign tongue...