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...Senate Armed Forces Committee, Lindsey Graham, a Republican senator from South Carolina. Lieberman and Graham said little - and what they did say was in praise of their "plain-speaking" companion McCain - but they enunciated their few words clearly. McCain's voice, by contrast, proved too soft to withstand the gusts of a blustery London day. Journalists who normally hover behind the banks of TV cameras and photographers during press conferences held on the private street outside 10 Downing Street could not hear his answers and were forced to maneuver crablike below the massed lenses to kneel at the senator...
...many ways, this is what happened after Vietnam. Underlying that war were the beliefs that the communists in North Vietnam couldn't withstand our military might and that the noncommunists in South Vietnam wanted to be saved. The war shattered both assumptions. On the left, Jimmy Carter responded by making human rights the centerpiece of his foreign policy: America would stand up for liberty--but not militarily. Conservatives insisted that had we used more military force in Vietnam, we would have won. But as the world turned increasingly anti-American, they abandoned the conceit that when we took up arms...
...achanged woman, whether empoweredor embittered or simply embarrassed.But things seem to continue essentiallyas they were before. When itcomes time for her son, the new CrownPrince, to marry, Haruko convinces hisheadstrong beloved to submit to thestern hand of the monarchy. Together,the novel suggests, these two womenwill be able to withstand the pressuresof tradition that weighed so heavilyon Haruko alone. But when her newdaughter-in-law begins to stagger underthe burden—committing the faux pasof entering rooms before her husbandand struggling with the formal courtlanguage—Haruko abandons her: “Shewas not the first...
...just had the money. The headworks at the natural glacier would direct water with more precision and efficiency. Stone channels would be widened so the water wouldn't freeze on its way down. Pipes leading to the pools would be deep underground, and made of concrete, to withstand floods. Water would cascade onto fields in April, and global warming would lose its grip, for a while...
...rest and drink plenty of fluids. It's a bit of a mystery, then, why so many of Norway's samples are drug-resistant. In theory, viruses should develop resistance to drugs the same way bacteria do: through evolution. Since organisms with drug-resistant traits are better able to withstand contact with the drugs, they survive long enough to replicate and pass their traits to the next generation. With repeated exposure, a population will become increasingly resistant, with a larger and larger proportion of the organisms showing the protective attributes. Already, U.S. health authorities recommend against using two other...