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When the reviews appeared, they were mixed. The Hollywood Reporter gave it a rave. Daily Variety said the show needed work, but the New York Times thought it had "promise." TIME called it "a triumph of bounce over bumbling material." (Apparently the magazine had a change of heart later on, because Lucy was featured on its cover in May 1952.) When the ratings came out, I Love Lucy was in the Top 10, and six months later it reached No. 1. People ask why the show was an immediate hit and has remained popular for more than 50 years. Most...
...Stars and Stripes. This seemed slightly un-American--we're flag crazed to the point of silliness--and entirely appropriate; liberation, not conquest, was the stated purpose of the war. And so, when the Marines captured their first town, Umm Qasr, and the American flag was reflexively raised in triumph, it was quickly hauled down. In the early hours of Operation Iraqi Freedom, its diplomacy was as stunning as its precision: from the reluctance to use maximum force for the first few nights to the patient efforts to secure a mass surrender to the decision--even after the awesome bombing...
...challenge will often be the same: Can we learn to use diplomacy as exquisitely as we do force? The American military taught a lesson by example last week: it is far better for others to wave our flag in tribute than for us to wave it in triumph...
...challenge will often be the same: Can we learn to use diplomacy as exquisitely as we do force? The American military taught a lesson by example last week: it is far better for others to wave our flag in tribute than for us to wave it in triumph...
...Stars and Stripes. This seemed slightly un-American - we're flag crazed to the point of silliness - and entirely appropriate; liberation, not conquest, was the stated purpose of the war. And so, when the Marines captured their first town, Umm Qasr, and the American flag was reflexively raised in triumph, it was quickly hauled down. In the early hours of Operation Iraqi Freedom, its diplomacy was as stunning as its precision: from the reluctance to use maximum force for the first few nights to the patient efforts to secure a mass surrender to the decision - even after the awesome bombing...