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First, consider the problem of personnel--specifically, the newly confirmed director of the EPA, former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman. Whitman has been what Vice President Dick Cheney called a "good soldier," or, to avoid mixing metaphors, a loyal employee, and has made a point of talking up the administration's commitment to reducing carbon dioxide. Employees who go to bat for their bosses are a business asset. Yet Bush has seriously compromised the credibility of Whitman by opening her decisions to reversal by the president. When trying to seek compliance from industry on environmental regulations, Whitman will always...
...bitter end. Although the Russians won the 1942-43 battle of Stalingrad, they lost 1.1 million men (in contrast to the Axis' 800,000) defending a strategically trivial city. From the beginning, we see that the Russian army is one that values materials over men. They supply the conscripted soldiers, who are brought to Stalingrad in cattle cars, with one rifle for every two men, telling the second man to take the gun when the first man falls. Additionally, each of the soldiers is just as likely to get shot by Russian officers for turning back than...
...often didn't even try, to save the Madurese victims. The center of Sampit is decorated with a plinth commemorating Indonesia's 1948 independence, guarded by a life-size plaster statue of a policeman?an apt symbol of their frozen response to the crisis. Two battalions of soldiers were brought to Sampit a week after the massacres broke out to restore order, but Madurese houses continued to go up in flames long after their arrival. "That's not our job," was the bored comment from a soldier watching a house being torched in the regional capital Palangkaraya. The government...
...post-trip debriefing with a few reporters, Powell made clear that despite getting, by his own count, only 12 hours sleep during the four-day jaunt, he'd found time to read all three editorials. "It was interesting," he said of his notices. "You know, I'm an old soldier, so I've got to figure out how the artillery is bracketing me. The New York Times said 'bravo,' the Washington Times said 'No,' and the Wall Street Journal kind of split the difference. So what do I do with that? I just keep going, trying to find the right...
...goes, he knew the risks. His wife and family knew the risks. Dale Jr. knew the risks, risks that basketball, baseball or even football would not tolerate. There is something undeniably noble about this superstar's exit, a racer dying in the thick of the thing he loved. A soldier carried out on his shield at the Daytona...