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…ent to the rank and file of our citizen army. But in the officers’ corps, there were also examples of coolheadedness in crisis, and leadership. One was Moussa Peled, who was now made head of the armored corps. My overall wartime commander, Bren, replaced Gorodish as head of the s...

…tlement programs. They serve many of the nation’s poorest, whose struggles have been made worse by the recent financial crisis. Apart from Social Security and unemployment insurance, however, funding for these programs has been woefully inadequate — and getting worse. Entitlemen...

…octrine assumed that no matter how bad things got between the Soviet Union and the United States—the 1962 Cuban missile crisis being a case in point— neither side would risk annihilation. The leaders of Iran do not think that way. They reason as follows: “We have 70 million peopl...

…he executive or the military. Our experience in delegating decision-making authority to these institutions in times of crisis is discouraging.

it is not a suicide pact.” But it is precisely during times of crisis—when the balance between momentary expediency and enduring safeguards often goes askew—that courts can perform their most critical function: to preserve or restore a sense of perspective.

I felt a real crisis of conscience. I couldn't disprove his arguments or find facts to respond to them with. I didn't know what to believe. I'd blindly followed for so long

…st come from an emotional meeting of the Supreme Soviet at which he had sought emergency powers to confront the ongoing crisis. I introduced myself to him as he was eating dinner and we had a lengthy conversation in which I asked him to come with me to the synagogue and denounce...

controversial Conservative MEP Dan Hannan and Timothy Garton Ash to debate the motion ""Germany no longer needs Europe – the dream is over <http://intelligencesquared.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9b096c9e607fbd256b4fab080&id=4653697a94&e=796428630f> "" on May 17th.

…hilosophy/Meaning of Math (discovered/invented?) ADD/Exchange to Biological Breakthrough episodes 9/10. Replicability Crisis - Problems in Statistics in Search for Truth. Deep problems of replicability in biomedical and psychological research - the scandal in recent years. In...

…sed assets and equity from financial institutions to provide the capital and liquidity needed during the 2008 financial crisis (which followed the real estate bubble). In 2009, TARP recipients were broadened to include automakers, an insurance company (AIG), individual homeowner...

…t that the conditions in Gaza do not rival the problems in sub-Saharan Africa only makes the political and human rights crisis here all the more tragic — and solvable. Israel, they note, still controls access to sea, air and most land routes, and its security policies have consci...

…” We did not have long to focus on the lessons and implications of Tze’elim. For weeks before the training accident, a crisis had been building in south Lebanon, with a sharp escalation of the now-familiar mix of clashes inside our “security zone” and cross-border rocket attacks...

…ritten by Harvard government professors® on the failure of President Ford to choose the right cases to reason from in a crisis. Usu- ally this kind of analysis is done as kind of an afterthought. However, teaching people to do it actually is critical to teaching people to pre- di...

…-yield and EM currencies. Further, which currencies might replace the dollar? The EUR itself is still in an existential crisis; nothing needs to be said about the JPY; China could not even dare opening up its capital account. In fact, Beijing has just issued even more ‘strict con...

…or other DOJ figures, doing so often multiple times a day. McGahn’s steadying hand had so far helped avert an ultimate crisis. But he had missed or let slip by or simply ignored a number of intemper- ate, unwise, and interfering actions by the president that might, McGahn feared...