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...McNally’s] halftime stats would’ve been a great line for a game,” Amaker said. “I think the world of the kid...You can count on him—he’s a player that’s going to show up every night...
...Road” is a flawed film but a great one, brutally affecting and finally, unexpectedly, uplifting. It crystallizes our greatest fears about our own capabilities into a truly original and discomfiting vision of the world, and it very nearly does McCarthy’s book justice. Viewers may leave the theater not entirely sure what they just witnessed, but “The Road” will stick with them, as will the pressing questions it poses...
...higher purpose. At Gettysburg, Abraham Lincoln vowed that the Union would complete "the great task remaining before us" yet made it clear that the goal was not just to defeat the Confederacy but to ensure "that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom." During World War II, Franklin D. Roosevelt tacitly agreed to postwar Soviet dominion over Eastern Europe in part to secure Moscow's support for an invasion of Japan. But to the public, FDR couched the war against the Axis as nothing less than a fight to "build a world founded upon four essential...
...Afghanistan is not nearly as vital to America's global interests as World War II was - and the Taliban's tyranny pales in comparison to that of the Third Reich. But while it's too simplistic to focus solely on the moral imperatives of the Afghan campaign, it would be just as shortsighted for Obama to ignore them altogether. History shows that Americans are far more willing to support a war that they believe is worthy of their ideals. If Obama hopes to rally the American people behind his strategy, his speech needs to convince them that...
...held increasingly senior positions in Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, notably as director of the Science Division, director of the Nuclear Energy Division and deputy director general for arms control and scientific affairs. (See pictures of the world's worst nuclear disasters...