Word: unpreparedness
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THE THIRD time seems to be the charm for Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. Their first encounter in Geneva two years ago was little more than a chance for the leaders of the two superpowers to get to know eachother and produced no tangible results. Their last meeting, last fall...
Worse yet, the U.S. military again looks like a gawky Goliath, beset by poor planning, faulty conception and just plain bad luck. Last week the Bridgeton, a Kuwaiti tanker now flying the Stars and Stripes, prepared to limp out of the Persian Gulf with a 30-ft. by 10-ft...
Most American Indians on reservations earn less than $7,000 a year. At least 35% are unemployed, and those who do work tend to be found in low-wage jobs. Roughly two-thirds live off the reservation, where they often find themselves % unprepared for urban life. Native Americans constitute one...
Boston College is a school I had heard of. But I was unprepared for the institution to stock six different law reviews: The B.C. International and Comparative Law Review, The B.C. Industrial and Commercial Law Review, The B.C. Law Review, The B.C. Environmental Affairs Law Review, The B.C. Third World...
This tension between the broad sweep of history and the minutiae perceived by individuals caught in its rush keeps Persian Nights holding steady, well above the level of conventional romance. In lesser hands, the novel could easily have been called something like A Doctor's Wayward Wife in Iran, and...