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...deeply concerned by the use of deadly force to quell the protests and deplore the PA’s attempt to suppress news reports of the events. But we hope that its opposition to the horrific Sept. 11 attack on innocent civilians will convince the PA that it must combat terrorism, in all its forms, to achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East...
...passed out to British soldiers at the battle of Bunker Hill promising free land if they defected. Over the years, it gained a reputation as a black art, the stuff of Tokyo Rose and Nazi propaganda. But today's psywarriors are like Madison Avenue advertising executives - except they wear combat fatigues and jump out of planes...
...large mixed bag of talents that came to include, among others, Julia Child, the actor Sterling Hayden, the poet Archibald MacLeish, the historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and three future directors of the CIA. Donovan, a Wall Street Republican who had won the Congressional Medal of Honor for combat in World War I, made the OSS hospitable to many communist agents. Much moral confusion flowed from the fact that Stalin, one of history's true monsters, was for the moment an ally. The Germans and Japanese never penetrated the secret of the Manhattan Project's atom bomb, but the Soviets (through...
...face of Mullah Mohammed Omar, the 42-year-old chieftain of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban. The fuzzy photo of him is one of the few known to exist. Omar avoids the camera?not because of vanity (he is half blind, having lost the use of one eye in combat in the 1980s) nor because he wants to hide in the shadows. It's because Islam proscribes representative artwork, and Omar includes photographs in that concept. Religion is Omar's obsessive core, as I learned in my many interviews with him in Kandahar, the Taliban's hometown and Omar's heavily...
Gutmann said one way to combat the consumerization of education is to increase financial aid opportunities for students...