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...rats of Tobruk," as the Australians called themselves, would hold out against Rommel for 242 days. Attack after attack failed to dislodge them. In the first week of December, just as the Pacific war began, an Allied thrust threatened to encircle Rommel's forces. To avoid falling into a trap, the Germans withdrew from Tobruk. In the last confusing battle over the fortress, 38,000 Axis soldiers were killed; the Allies lost...
Harvard's last piece of self-congratulatory puffery about the new Busch-Reisinger (Harvard Gazette, October 4) compels me to protest a huge imposture, a hoax thrust upon us by University...
...inevitable. Dismantling a seven-decade-old communist dictatorship and building new institutions from scratch is a Herculean task, especially for people who have no training in how to make democratic politics work. In Russia the current leaders did not attain power through a well-orchestrated plan but were thrust into a vacuum created by the failure of the reactionary putsch in August. They have been improvising ever since...
Many of the techniques and steps of the process that you would use in a job search at home are equally useful in the overseas job quest. Information gathering - talking, reading and writing - is the way to get started. The thrust of all this activity should be directed to creating a network of contacts that will eventually lead to a job. Unless there is a booming, hungry employment market in the place you are going, you have to be a pretty good salesperson to convince an employer why they should hire an American student. Employers offering temporary jobs, in whatever...
...Dinesh D'Souza's book Illiberal Education hovers high on the best-seller lists. Its keynote is the dire warning that "an academic and cultural revolution is under way at American universities...the fruit of a coherent ideology that seeks to thrust the university into the vanguard of social reform and establish a model 'multicultural community...