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...thick armor and allow them to see what’s at each other’s core: a mirror image. The two are the same insofar as Darcy and Elizabeth from Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” are both stubborn and conceited. Bond and Vesper cling to their self-defense mechanisms, leery of betraying deficiencies they both have in spades...
...agency's operations, from analysis to satellite imagery to language study. Although not all these reforms bore fruit, CIA spending on Soviet collection and analysis shrank from 60% of its budget to less than 15%. Gates tried the same thing at Texas A&M, a school with an almost stubborn resistance to change--ending admissions preference for children of alumni, hiring hundreds of new faculty members and firing veteran football coach R.C. Slocum...
...Cheney Gives No Ground I was chilled and appalled by Vice President Dick Cheney's glib answers to TIME's interview questions [Oct. 30]. His comments related to the debacle in Iraq?"We're not looking for an exit strategy. We're looking for victory"?reflected the stubborn disconnect from reality that has characterized the Bush Administration's prosecution of the war. How much longer will Americans allow our leaders to repeat the tired and disingenuous rhetoric that ignores the depressing reality in Iraq? Mark Wardlaw Santa Rosa, California...
...command in control in the Iraqi army." Sure - and while we're at it, why not just ask for world peace? Coalition forces simply can't figure out how to turn these bromides into reality in Iraq, where chaos and carnage steadily mount. A gap between alluring vision and stubborn reality is evident also in Blair's challenge to Iran to help pacify Iraq - while pointedly refusing its leaders any incentives to do so as long as they won't renounce its nuclear program. Other countries too are flummoxed about how to get Iran to cooperate, but as the coalition...
...Lagos, Nigeria Cheney Gives No Ground I was chilled and appalled by vice President Dick Cheney's glib answers to Time's interview questions [Oct. 30]. His comments related to the debacle in Iraq - "We're not looking for an exit strategy. We're looking for victory" - reflected the stubborn disconnect from reality that has characterized the Bush Administration's prosecution of the war. How much longer will Americans allow our leaders to repeat the tired and disingenuous rhetoric that ignores the depressing reality in Iraq? Mark Wardlaw Santa Rosa, California, U.S. The Big Idea of Small Loans Never...