Word: megaliths
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...25th marks the 31st anniversary of the movie megalith Star Wars. In three decades the franchise has spawned more than just massive revenues and legions of fans - it has also inspired a religion. Jediism, based on the teachings of the films, counts thousands of members worldwide...
...Which is not to say that the candidates shouldn't debate Iraq and Pakistan policy - both are key issues. But America's foreign and national security policy megalith is still structured to handle superpower threats like the Soviet Union. What questions would a debate about weak-state strategy involve? A few suggestions...
...JEAN-MARIE MESSIER Put an ambitious, cosmopolitan French banker in charge of a 148-year-old French water company, and you get...a global-media megalith called VIVENDI UNIVERSAL, with telecom and cable assets in Europe; TV, movie and music studios on both sides of the Atlantic; and theme parks in the U.S. and Japan. Internet maven Messier, 44, may have racked up too much debt on his recent acquisition binge. But Vivendi posted a 30% jump in third-quarter cash flow, thanks much more to subscriptions than advertising. Just like in the water business...
China, with one-fifth of the world's population, has remained an isolated megalith. Japan, thanks to the persistence of Commodore Matthew Perry, went from an isolated country to a major power within 50 years of granting trading rights to the U.S. in two Japanese ports. China could achieve world economic prominence exponentially faster in the 21st century. China has been referred to as a sleeping lion. Believe me, this is one kitty we don't want to mess with! JON ST. JOHN Neenah, Wisconsin...
...Harvard Steele describes in his early chapter differs vastly from the megalith today's students know. Big-name professors devoted time to undergraduates; patrician competition for acceptance to social clubs was not the exception but the rule; and students lacked the "social awareness" to rally at protests and demonstrations. Lippmann's Jewish heritage barred his entrance to most college groups and organizations. The Crimson blackballed him. But Lippmann gained recognition as one of the keenest minds of his class. To strengthen his grasp of the moral issues socialism involved, he pored through volumes of Fabian society tracts and Marxist literature...