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...Korean War. In China, Qian used his skills to promote and organize scientific bodies as well as develop the missile programs that laid the groundwork for China's first manned space mission in 2003. But he remained bitter over his treatment by the U.S. "It was the stupidest thing this country ever did," said former Navy Secretary Dan Kimball, according to Iris Chang's 1995 biography of Qian. "He was no more a Communist than I was--and we forced...
...Come off the bench, start the game, it really doesn’t matter to me,” Casey said. “The biggest thing is that after the game...
...This is the most serious thing I’ve ever done,” Long said. “It’s the most serious thing Harvard students will see at their time here...
...took me a minute to believe it,” Wynn said. “I looked for a flag or something. It’s a hard thing to describe. It’s been a long time coming...Best feeling of my life...
Conservative kvetchers usually have a more serious bogeyman in mind: voters using dead people’s names, campaign workers coercing or bribing people into voting for their man—that sort of thing. But their evidence is almost always mere innuendo. Consider The Wall Street Journal’s John Fund, who leads a cottage industry of voter-fraud hyperventilators. The day before the election, Fund laughably tried to tie ACORN, that all-purpose conservative bugaboo, to anticipated wrong-doings in New Jersey: “Philly operatives associated in the past with ACORN may now be advising...