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...nature of empires to confuse victory in battle with a mandate for unending dominion and to find out the hard way that the two are different. Hannibal was unable to translate triumph at Cannae into final victory over Rome; Napoleon, with all of Europe at his feet, disastrously marched the Grand Army into Russia. A little more than a year after the British slaughtered 11,000 Sudanese at the Battle of Omdurman while losing only 48 of their own men, they were on the run from the artillery and rifles of the Boers...
...sure, past is not prediction. Simply because other imperial powers have succumbed to hubristic temptation does not mean that the U.S., basking in the glow of military triumph in Iraq, will do the same. But some cheerleaders of the Bush Administration have said enough to make those outside the U.S. believe that Washington wants to change more regimes than just Iraq's and that it is happy, if necessary, to go its own merry way, ignoring the interests and concerns of others. In the most notorious of such comments, James Woolsey, a member of the Pentagon's advisory Defense Policy...
...while not as dramatic as the triumph over poverty, drug abuse and homelessness that Lifetime chronicles, the three years since Murray first set foot in a Harvard classroom add a shade of complexity to her story...
Less known about his career, though, is that six years later he shifted his focus from the profane to the sacred, undertaking a massive mural cycle for the Boston Public Library. Sargent’s “Triumph of Religion” is now being restored for the first time in a half-century by the Harvard University Art Museums’ Straus Center for Conservation...
PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE/ROGER DODGER. As part of their “Not Nominated (by the Academy)” series, the Brattle is running two of last year’s most intelligent films as a double feature. Punch-Drunk Love, the latest triumph from director Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia, Boogie Nights), is a shining comic love story with powerful, artifice-free turns from Adam Sandler and Emily Watson; Philip Seymour Hoffman also has a few funny moments as a crass Utah entrepreneur. Meanwhile, Roger Dodger follows a suave but immature ladies’ man (Campbell Scott...