Word: woodrow
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...Fred C. Reece, president of the Woodrow Wilson Court Tenants' Council, says he appreciates the police's recent efforts to reach out the community and to inform people of their efforts...
...calling in fairly direct ways: a pep talk from an English teacher, perhaps, or a stint on the high school newspaper. Jim Kelly got the news bug when he was negotiating a treaty on long-range nuclear missiles. It happened when he was an undergraduate at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, preparing to take part in a mock U.S.-Soviet negotiating session on SALT II. "I thought the exercise was pretty silly," says Jim. "Besides, doing the reporting on both sides' positions was more intriguing to me than being part of the action. That...
...unholy alliance of the left and right stands in the way. Some Democrats, turning away from the internationalist tradition of Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, argue that the United States is too poor and too unworthy to play a major world role. Some Republicans, abandoning the tradition of enlightened foreign policy stretching from Eisenhower through Bush, call for a new isolationism. Both fail to see the iron link between the U.S. leadership and our twin goals of peace abroad and prosperity at home...
...containment of communism -- makes no sense today. The chief task now is to meet new challenges, like the tough economic competition from Europe and East Asia and the combustible nationalism of a host of small nations. In such a world, none of the past approaches to American policy -- from Woodrow Wilson's global do-goodism to Henry Kissinger's balance-of-power realpolitik -- can be counted on to provide the answers...
There may be more than a touch of arrogance in such rhetoric, whether its source is Bush in 1991 or Franklin Roosevelt in 1941 or Woodrow Wilson in 1917. But there is also nobility and immense political force in the claim that American power is an instrument of universal values as well as national interests. Throughout this century that idea has helped rally other countries when U.S. Presidents have called. It enabled Bush to mobilize a mighty international coalition that cut across the traditional divides of East and West, North and South, and gave meaning to the phrase new world...