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...course to be conducted under the supervision of Naval officers will be elective and open to members of the class of 1930. It is designed as a four year course, to be divided into two parts, the Basic Course and the Advanced Course. The Basic Course will consist of a two years training in the rudiments of naval gunnery, construction, and navigation. It will parallel the preliminary course in the Military Training Department. The Advanced Course will be open only to those who have completed the first two years' work...
...only do we reject the politics of social division, but we embrace progressive public policy. According to the survey, an astounding 60 percent of college students nationwide believed that environmental protection should be as high a priority as protecting jobs. An even higher 69 percent said they believe that basic health insurance is a right that the government should provide for those unable to pay. And only 22 percent said they believe that cutting taxes is the best way to create jobs (37 percent disagreed). By no means, however, are we looking for handouts. Forty-six percent disagreed with...
...reduce the number of its troops significantly. But getting there requires a commitment of at least several more months of American blood and treasure. As his troops raced toward Baghdad last March, the commander of the 101st Airborne Division, Major General David Petraeus, asked a question that is both basic and haunting: "Tell me how this is supposed to end?" More than a year down the road, we still don't know the answer. --Reported by Massimo Calabresi, Matthew Cooper and Mark Thompson/Washington; J.F.O. McAllister/London; and Andrew Lee Butters/Baghdad
...farfetched that a man would forget his own grandson? Sure. But the gag works, because many of us also forgot Ben existed, even though he figured heavily in the sitcom's first two seasons. Jokes on Friends often involve characters' reminding us of basic details about their lives (say, that Monica and Ross are brother and sister) or forgetting details about one another (in Season 7, Chandler gets glasses, and everyone, including his fiance Monica, believes he has always had them). Friends is like that: content to be funny and forgettable. Even the episode titles--"The One Where ..."--suggest that...
...concept was the moral sanctity of American power. The post--cold war world was unipolar; multilateral institutions like the United Nations were feckless constraints on American action. Diplomatic protocols like the Kyoto accord and the Middle East peace process were outdated as well (the protection of Israel was another basic neoconservative assumption). The response to Islamic radicalism would be strategic, as Rice said, not tactical: the Middle East would be rebuilt according to American principles, and Iraq was the key. If Saddam Hussein could be replaced by a democracy (or perhaps just a pro-American government headed by every neocon...