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...Vietnam was a greater victory for the U.S. than World War II because what we accomplished there was more far-reaching. Troops did not die in vain. Everything has a price. Considering the size of the conflict, this showdown between socialism and capitalism was decided upon a relatively blood-free field. We should pause a moment and look at the conflicts now confronting us and see how the lessons of Vietnam will be reflected in the history of the first half of the 21st century...
While our efforts to save South Vietnam proved vain in the end, we should not dismiss the role the Vietnam conflict played in our ultimate victory in the Cold War. Our intervention in Vietnam held back the forces of Communism long enough so that other Southeast Asian nations, such as Thailand and Malaysia, were able to strengthen themselves and thereby never succumb to communist aggression. The Vietnam War, though a defeat, helped stem the tide of Communism in Southeast Asia and therefore contributed to our victory in the Cold War. McNamara's mistake lay not in fighting the Vietnam...
...same time, Grant's juvenile record was sealed because the matter is supposed to be ended. The Grant Affair shows that the past is never so neatly shut. It's in vain for the justice system to claim that her background is simply irrelevant. The past will always be with her, even while she fades from the national spotlight...
...years no one openly challenged the deal's structure, although CBS in 1990-91 did try in vain to persuade a senior Congressman and two newspapers to investigate. Virtually anyone can challenge renewals or transfers of broadcast licenses, a practice that acknowledges that the airwaves are public property, at least in theory. Enter David Honig, a Washington lawyer who often represents the interests of minority clients before the FCC. He too had wondered about the deal and, in mid-1993, found the time and a willing client, a unit of the N.A.A.C.P., to allow him to do the necessary digging...
...felt sure deserved to be here and would have done wonderfully here but who were not accepted. Indeed, I have no doubt that my own admission to the College a quarter century ago meant that another equally deserving applicant did not get into Harvard; I have never been so vain as to think that those who are here are the only ones who deserve to be here. Harvard--and every other select college in the land--each year turn away thousands of "deserving" students, not because there is something "wrong" with them, but because the college can take only...