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...black friend of mine then hissed. Kael got upset, and asked for the objection to be verbalized. So another friend inquired, "Are you implying that films can be made by morons?" At this, Kael threw up her hands, and the liberal crowd hissed in accord. Outside of that Leverett context, however, the question seems eminently reasonable...
...small salary increase is consistent with this year’s uncharacteristically low endowment payout, and the ongoing staffing reductions across the University. Given this grim context, salary negotiations for faculty may operate under the shadow of financial strain for the next several years, according to Mendelsohn...
...some ways, of course, he did. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is candid in saying that no one expected fighting like this a full year after the fall of Baghdad. But any judgment about the President's judgments requires context. First, the context of the war on terrorism, which means examining the entire post-Sept. 11 ledger. That includes more than just the past two weeks of bloodletting in Iraq. It includes overthrowing the Taliban, liberating Afghanistan, scattering and decimating al-Qaeda, deposing Saddam Hussein, disarming Libya and turning Pakistan from supporter of the Taliban (and by extension al-Qaeda) into...
...Second, the context of war in general. What level of errorlessness - and admission of errorhave we demanded of our wartime leaders? In World War II, F.D.R. and Winston Churchill made scores of tactical errors that cost thousands of Allied lives. Did they apologize? Did they say they were sorry for the disastrous Operation Market Garden ("a bridge too far") or for the terrible losses in the Battle of the Bulge? It takes but a modicum of humility and humanity to recognize that in the pressure of war, tactical errors are inevitable...
Throughout this process of conscious cultural exposure, I have gained a means of evaluating my Indian-American-ness in a modern context, to replace the 1970’s culture and values that my parents preserved on their trip across the Atlantic...