Word: weakness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...well. Throughout the competition, the defense put relentless pressure on UMass. “I give our defense a lot of credit,” senior Caroline Simmons said. “They did a great job stepping up to attackers and forcing them to use their weak hand.” Another element that contributed to Harvard’s victory was the new coaching staff. It is the first year coaching at Harvard for both head coach Lisa Miller and assistant coach Sarah Albrecht. Together the two have completely changed the team for the better...
...caricature, getting help represents failure. These misperceptions don’t reflect the reality that nearly 50 percent of graduating seniors have taken advantage of counseling or mental health services on or off campus at least once during their years here. The perception that people who seek help are weak detracts from ongoing efforts on behalf of a number of people and organizations to improve mental health services on campus...
...however many states become involved in trying to defang Pyongyang and ease the North's eventual integration into the international system, it remains the case that for someone who has long been assumed to hold a weak hand, Kim has played his cards well. Using delay and deceit, always threatening, expressly or by implication, to deploy or sell his nukes, he has wheedled cash, fuel and food aid from the outside and used them to prop up his rule. Nothing, as I say, lasts forever. But the unification that Lee maintains is the "long-cherished desire of the 70 million...
...Just because the candidates haven't been debating a larger strategy for handling weak states doesn't mean they're not thinking about it. Clinton has several experts on failed states advising her, including Richard Holbrooke, who negotiated the end of the Balkan wars, and Madeleine Albright, who made expanding democracy the theoretical aim of her tenure as Bill Clinton's Secretary of State. McCain's director of foreign and national security policy is Randy Scheunemann, from the conservative Project for a New American Century, who as a Senate adviser handled issues of military intervention in the Balkans and Somalia...
...None of the candidates has said what concrete steps they would take to reorient the tools of American power to better handle the threats produced by weak states. And it's not clear how much of the strategic lesson has seeped up to the candidates from the advisors who know something about it. But for all the talk of the experience required to be Commander in Chief in the post-9/11 era, it might be useful to start asking...