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...phrase sums up his approach to these issues. Kissinger steadfastly refuses to enter into the question of whether these principles are important enough to ever outrank geopolitics, instead presenting them as esoteric details imposed on statesmen by an ignorant public. He never enters into the question of where national interest comes from and dodges the argument that it is these domestic preferences that gives statesmen and geopolitics its direction...
...Churchill was also on the team. Patton was a fierce field commander and an almost mystical student of military history, but headlong narcissism impaired his sight from time to time. He had trouble judging those in power over him. We all do. Either we are infuriated by people who outrank us, or we overvalue those in whom we have invested hopes. Trusting leaders involves risks, acts of faith...
...only do Harvard's graduate students workers have salaries and benefits far better than those of their counterparts at large state schools, but they outrank even those at comparable private institutions...
...handful of rising sophomores, religion will outrank randomization as the main housing issue for the next two years...
...that is exactly what Davis and the nation's other 33,000 caseworkers are required to do. Dispatched into unfamiliar, often dangerous surroundings, they are expected to make instant predictions about tomorrow, based largely on a sixth sense about the data their five senses gather today. Certainly many people outrank them in the child-welfare hierarchy, yet their views carry the greatest weight. Only they "walk up the drug-filled staircase, sit on the dirty couch and talk to the teenage mother," says Marc Parent, who spent four years as a caseworker in New York City. As the Elisa Izquierdo...