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...Smyth’s slapper from the right circle at 9:53 of the first—but was flawless for the rest of the evening. Mazzoleni said he thought Daigneau “played steady,” which wasn’t a heavy task given the superb effort of Harvard’s defense. The Raiders (9-8-3, 4-4-0) had 18 shots on goal. Only five came in the third...
...kind America would field. By the early 1990s, as the U.S. began to face peskier enemies overseas, the doctrine began to unravel. Discussing how to apply force to Bosnia in 1994, Madeleine Albright, then Bill Clinton's U.N. ambassador, famously asked Powell, "What's the point of having this superb military that you're always talking about...
...patriotic poetry, high office, and hearing themselves talk. 'Being with them was like sitting between two lions roaring at the same time,' said [Churchill's daughter] Mary Soames." Each had a powerful sense of the stagecraft of statesmanship. Each was physically brave, profoundly ambitious, a consummate actor and a superb politician. Each was the son of a rich American mother. (Roosevelt, infinitely doted upon, had a happy childhood; Churchill was famously neglected...
Well, it's back. The film event of the millennium--three superb films re-creating J.R.R. Tolkien's epic series of novels--reaches its climax with The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. For the third December in a row, the year is capped with a robust cinematic retelling of the war of Middle-earth, as the hobbit Frodo (Wood) and his fellowship of humans, elves, dwarfs and the wizard Gandalf (McKellen) surge into battle against the dark power of Mordor's Lord Sauron...
...Harvard and for those, like me, who have been fortunate enough to have Chris as a good friend as well as a wonderful colleague,” Tribe wrote in an e-mail. “Professor Edley is a brilliant and visionary thinker, an accomplished scholar, and a superb administrator with a keen sense of the politically attainable and of how best to get from here to there. I congratulate...Chris for his courage in taking on this challenging assignment...