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...midst of his Harvard graduate studies in modern Chinese history, Thomson left the University for politics in 1956 to work on Democrat Adlai E. Stevenson’s second campaign for the presidency. For one Stevenson speech on foreign policy, Thomson coined the term “brinksmanship” to describe Secretary of State John F. Dulles’s claim to bringing the world to the brink of nuclear war in order to block Soviet expansion. The term has since become standard foreign policy jargon...
...quiet intelligence and financial and psychological warfare that can best "drain the swamp" where the terrorists hide. Would a large-scale attack demonstrate American resolve or play into the hands of those hoping to create a martyr? "Not only do you need the courage of your convictions," Adlai Stevenson once said. "Sometimes you need the courage of your doubts...
...quiet intelligence and financial and psychological warfare that can best "drain the swamp" where the terrorists hide. Would a large-scale attack demonstrate American resolve or play into the hands of those hoping to create a martyr? "Not only do you need the courage of your convictions," Adlai Stevenson once said. "Sometimes you need the courage of your doubts...
Flash back to last season under the lights at Brown’s Stevenson Field, host site of Harvard’s second Ivy game and the Bears’ Ivy opener. On paper, it looked like a mismatch—the defending Ivy champion Crimson versus last year’s cellar team. But just a few minutes after the whistle blew, Brown senior Bekah Splaine slipped a weak outside shot into the Harvard net. Chaos ensued on the field from there, and the Crimson fell to 2-2 on the season in a 2-0 defeat...
...Williams sisters' father Richard. Actually, don't bother asking. Just stand within shouting distance of him, or listen to the outgoing message on his cell phone, on which he is always angry about something, usually race. Serena says their only friends on the tour are Chanda Rubin and Alexandra Stevenson, the only other black women near the top 100. The other players, who admittedly don't like one another's white butts either, find the Williamses off-putting. And many think they play the race card when it suits them. "Being black only helps them," says the Czechoslovakia-born Hingis...