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...particular prostitute was also yearning for his return. Yet the amoral tone of Machiavelli's work seems to reflect his age more than his temperament. In the 16th century, gore and tragedy dominated the Italian peninsula, a hodgepodge of warring city-states, kingdoms and republics. Machiavelli roamed this minefield of intrigue on horseback as Florence's diplomatic envoy from the age of 29. In an early mission, he failed to resolve a long-standing feud between two families, and King describes the result: "The heads of a dozen members of the Panciatichi family were stuck on lances and paraded through...
University politics can be quite the minefield to tread, and we regret that Skocpol’s personal attributes and managerial style fell out of favor with her colleagues. With her resignation, we have lost a driven leader whose vision for the pedagogical improvement of Harvard will be sorely missed. But her resignation also reflects lessons to be learned. Like it or not, University politics clearly demands that administrators not only have vision and drive, but also the ability to accomplish their goals diplomatically...
...Democrats, health carehas longbeen a merciless minefield. Hillary Clinton's disastrous effort to transform the system in her husband's first term nearly cost him the presidency. After that, politicians pretty much stopped talking about the subject except to offer marginal and politically unassailable fixes, like covering more children or requiring insurance companies to accept people with pre-existing health conditions...
...Middlebury finished second and third with 843.0 and 806.5 points, respectively. In the alpine events, winds of upto 50 MPH and poor visibility provided tough conditions for the teams. Combined with soft snow, navigating the slopes proved to be a challenging endeavor. “It was like a minefield trying to make it down,” senior Katie Connors said. “It was pretty intense, but everyone made it down pretty fast.” Junior Alexandra Teng placed highest for Harvard in both the women’s slalom and giant slalom. Teng?...
...Clint Eastwood's movie sidesteps the minefield by focusing on a single battle in the Pacific theater. It portrays Japan's soldiers as human, flawed and tragic, and Japanese audiences have no trouble identifying with them as they fight a doomed battle under a hard-driving but caring general (played by star Ken Watanabe) whom many Japanese would probably see as the perfect boss. Letters doesn't shy away from the suicidal warrior ethos that ultimately drove Japan's military to lead the country into obliteration - witness the scene where a lieutenant orders his men to kill themselves with live...