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Rumsfeld continues to shift troops around as nations fall in and out of the coalition against Saddam. U.S. diplomats worked overtime last week trying to win basing rights for 15,000 troops in Turkey, and they remain optimistic that Saudi Arabia will join Kuwait in allowing U.S. troops to stage from its soil. Rumsfeld also is making an ever growing list of things that could go wrong in a war with Iraq--and peppering his officers to anticipate them. "He has an unsettling tendency to do that," an associate says. As Rumsfeld put it recently, "I'm never satisfied...
...exist almost without accompaniment; he sings the soulful melody with just a hint of acoustic guitar. Instead of forcing complicated riffs into the same airspace, Ritter opts to feature the distinctive sound of one or two instruments in each song. The music is allowed to laterally shift between styles with the smoothly rhythmic flow of Ritter’s poetic lyrics and wolfish voice. The way Ritter lets his style meld with each new addition creates tracks that are simplistic and relatively shallow musically. Although each song on its own doesn’t contain layers of orchestration, the album...
...those [professors] who teach pre-modern western history, the majority favored the shift,” Gordon said. “They’d rather not teach to captive audiences...
...alleged rape victims of “questionable character,” because we assume on some level that rape was an inevitabile or a logical conclusion to their behavior. By focusing on “explanations” for why rape occurs—explanations that subtly shift blame onto the alleged victim—we can lose sight of the most important facts of the situation. In the Duke lacrosse case, the alleged victim is not a ho or a stripper, she is a woman, a human being who has been through a traumatic experience, and, as such...
...Manliness” skirts irrelevance by positing itself as a response to the current trend towards a gender-neutral society. Mansfield convincingly argues that the gender-neutrality revolution represents an unprecedented shift in human social organization: no society before our own has so programmatically sought to eliminate gender as a criterion for determining occupation and social role...