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...memory of D-day and all that followed have provided 60 years of inspiration, they also set a trap. Anticipating the scene in Baghdad once the G.I.s rolled in was so easy; we remember Paris. Presuming gratitude for our generosity and sacrifice was only natural; think of the Marshall Plan. How much easier it was for war planners to ignore the warnings, dilute their planning with wishful thinking, when on the most fateful day in the history of modern warfare, so many wishes actually came true...
...activity with friends here] with you guys, but I’ve got to study for this quiz…” Too often, I’ve been a slave to my Timex, and at a place like Harvard, it sure is easy to fall into that trap...
...mention the equally alluring trap of résumé building. Can you believe that there’s a Consulting Club on campus? I almost spit out my spaghetti when I heard some folks talking about it at the dinner table the other day. Look, I’ve got a lot of friends who are neophyte consultants, and more power to them—they’re good people and they’re going to be doing good things for the economy come September. But let’s keep the McKinsey thing a post-college...
...planned or under construction. At least they were until recently, when China's Cabinet, the State Council, discouraged investment in new links as part of a broader effort to control what Beijing calls haphazard and redundant property projects. Across the mainland, developers now find themselves in a sand trap. "We're still working on due diligence to see if there will be any impact on our residential site," says Frederick Leung, executive director of Dickson Group Holdings, a Hong Kong construction contractor that delayed buying into a housing project adjacent to a golf course near Beijing after the restrictions were...
...Alex makes it his goal to keep her from finding out about the dramatic political changes through which she slept. Good Bye Lenin! is dotted with distilled illustrations of the many facets of the reunification, some of which shine much brighter than others. He does not fall into the trap of romanticizing the past at the expense of historical fact; his characters cherish their new conveniences and freedom of expression, and don’t miss the panoptic party structure of socialism...