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...complex strategic tradeoffs faced by the commander-in-chief of a nation at war. A good counterexample might be commanding a wartime squadron during combat. However, as former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Wesley Clark recently pointed out, none of the current candidates can claim that experience. While valiant, Clark insisted on CBS’s Face the Nation, John McCain’s action in Vietnam did not demand the same type of “executive responsibility” that commanding a wartime squadron would have engendered. This is not to take anything away from McCain?...
...Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970. The effusive stream of eulogies that poured in from across the world and the political spectrum might lead us to think that Solzhenitsyn ranks with George Orwell as one of the century’s literary saints—a valiant crusader against thuggish, inhuman totalitarianism. But Solzhenitsyn’s legacy needs to be put in perspective. Despite his much-vaunted heroism, he failed in many ways to measure up to the standards of either a great writer or a great man.A quick glance into the biographies behind the marbled busts...
...Chinese graphic designer has not been a happy one. In mainland China design was, for a long time, an instrument of socialist propaganda, and to be a graphic designer was to be a sort of mechanic, running chunky, graceless type across posters of model peasants or valiant soldiers. In Hong Kong and Taiwan, designers spent much of the 20th century toiling in the service of another omnipotent master - the export market, which required packaging and other printed matter produced strictly to Western specifications and sensibilities. Questions of form, style and color were not settled upon locally, but in British...
Playful Peaceniks Infinite accolades for the valiant wildlife conservationists who are striving to safeguard the intelligent, sociable and lovable bonobos in the perilous Congo [May 26]. If they do not succeed, it will be imperative to relocate endangered bonobos to safer havens and sanctuaries to ensure their survival. Brien Comerford, GLENVIEW...
...creation of courses for undergraduates as well as new research programs at Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School.At a meeting for the Medical School’s students and staff , Dean Jeffrey S. Flier described the grant application, which was submitted in November, as a “valiant effort from the entire community.”According to Flier’s presentation, Harvard requested $23 million from the NIH for the CTSC, which it received in full, in addition to the $15 million that the University will kick in from its own funds over the next five...