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That means, she said, going back to a “furnace of war?? where her best friend was shot dead while sitting in her car one morning...
...months leading up to the invasion of Iraq, Bush administration officials estimated the war??s price tag at as much as $200 billion—a figure officials quickly disputed as “too high...
...before the invasion of Iraq, Summers, then University president, had brought the professors together to discuss the coming war. Summers held court from a couch and directed the conversation. Two professors present at the dinner remember there was widespread skepticism about the reasons the Bush administration had provided for war??but nearly all thought the war would be a success. “In medicine, there’s medical malpractice,” Graham T. Allison Jr. ’62 said.“In law, you can be disbarred. Well, how about in our business...
...same year, the totalUS motion picture box offi ce gross wasless than $1.5 billion.In order to understand the adult fi lmindustry’s importance to DVDs, let’sconsider the late 70s when home videowas just becoming a reality.It was then that a “format war??erupted between competitors VHS andBetamax for supremacy in home mediadistribution. Sony pitched Betamax bytouting its ability to record from onetelevision station while the screen actuallyshowed another.The battle even resulted in a landmarkSupreme Court case, Sony Corp. v.Universal City Studios. The latter party,along with several other major studios...
...healthy liberal democracy. Yet while the average American considers his bedroom a sancto sanctorum, he doesn’t hesitate to deny the public servant the same privilege. If we reserved as much moral indignation for serious issues—like our engagement in a senseless and costly war??as we do for our politicians’ sexual peccadilloes, things might not be going so badly...