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...government. He said that soft power is not a normative concept and thus it is not always good to employ it. Similarly, hard power, which he described as the use of force, isn’t necessarily worse than soft power, he said. “Osama bin Laden has soft power in the eyes of his following,” he said. Nye criticized the military for trying to create soft power when personnel tried to bribe the Iraqi press to print stories praising Americans. “This squandered one of the greatest resources for soft power?...
...Predator is an unlikely star. In military terms, it is an unmanned aerial vehicle, or UAV. It was first flown a decade ago and for years was armed with only an unsophisticated camera for intelligence gathering. After the fall of 2000, when Osama bin Laden was spotted in Afghanistan by an unarmed Predator, the U.S. government sped up a program to fit each aircraft with two Hellfire missiles. Awesome sounding but benign looking, the 27-ft.-long Predator is painted a dull gray and shaped like an upside-down spoon with wings. The drone is made of lightweight composite plastic...
...conquer the United States. The film, which is unrelated to Young’s VES coursework, has been his pet project since last year. When an evil Secret Service Agent, played by Nathan D. Turner ’05, reanimates Reagan, the ex-president joins forces with Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda. After the pair deposes George W. Bush, it’s up to Reagan’s illegitimate son—“a black street person,” says Young, “haunted by dreams of the father who never accepted him?...
...China's Minister of Water Resources announced that 300 million people drink contaminated water on a daily basis. Of these, 190 million consume water so contaminated that it is making them sick. Children are particularly susceptible?more than 30,000 die annually from diarrhea due to unclean water. Wang Bin, director of the Ministry of Health's Women's Health Division, has linked environmental pollution to the 25% increase in birth defects China recorded between...
...puck slid into the neutral zone and Harvard broke towards Saints goaltender Kevin Ackley. Crimson junior Ryan Maki skated the puck up the right and shipped it across the slot to Du, who passed it back over to Fraser. The rookie, just 10 seconds out of the sin bin, went top shelf over Ackley for the 3-1 lead...