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…’s vision. To forge a true special- forces unit, at a time when the threats facing Israel seemed increasingly to demand one. Avraham’s initial hopes and expectations for the unit had been more than met. Sayeret Matkal had played the key role in erasing the traumas of Uri Ilan an...

…judices and philosophies regarding geography and spirituality. Under no circumstances are my ashes to be retained by anyone or buried in a particular location. The eventual dispersal can be delayed for any reasonable length of time required to reach a decision, but not to exceed...

…agination - something informed by conscience, carved by duty. Kant called it “the inner command", the ethical construct one creates to guide one from within. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029663

… that. Keep cool. Stay focused. Rely on your instincts. We’re ready for this mission. And we are going to achieve it.” One minute after four in the afternoon, we got the word to go. I was in the lead buggy, consciously trying to look like a civilian, not a soldier. It was about...

…and the French wanted it. They weren't ready to sit beside the German unified state without some friends." So the eurozone was flawed from the outset, a structure awaiting internal assault: "The problem is we have a single currency without a political union and without a fiscal...

…educator Heather Corinna, and it can always use donations! You should totally go investigate that site -- after you're done reading my work, of course. When I first published this piece, the sex-positive film director Tony Comstock commented on Twitter, "I think that post of you...

… be aborted if any word leaked out, because he didn’ t want a chance of failure to tarnish our image. As it turned out, one of the two tape recorders did fail, but his Christmas message to the world was the very first transmitted message from space.” Eisenhower stated: “This is...

…dumb and blind bomber pilot” challenge, he lived through the sort of moment that left an indelible psychological mark - one that remains visible in the revolution he made, as Luther’s lightning-bolt of faith is in the unadorned churches and simple liturgy of Lutheranism. Baran wa...

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…Thomas Street in Lower Manhattan. It was,an implacable temple of the high-priests of hub-and-spoke network design. That one building handled more telephone and telex traffic than nearly any other single point on earth. Surely the place was very high on the USSR first-strike list...

…n a member of the Nazi Party and an SS officer who could be linked to the deaths of thousands of concentration camp prisoners. (Fun fact: He married his cousin.) He came to America in 1945 and became a citizen in 1955. He was called the “Father of the U.S. space program.” In Jun...

…ted it all (Frieze opens to the public in Regent’s Park on Thursday), but a host of satellite events are also on offer. One of the more intriguing is taking place just down the road from the fair, at 2 Cornwall Terrace, part of an enormously expensive real estate project being de...

… the women were from Moracco, Afghanistan, Somalia, and the former Yugosiavia. The “intercultural garden” in Kassel is one of about 100 in Germany, but the only one run entirely by women. [And after the gardeners had long discussions about the haz- ards of pesticides, its produc...

… nation from donors and foreign aid there needs to be support for private industry to establish itself and flourish. At one point in its history, Haiti was a market leader in the textile industry supplying quality products. Currently there is an opportunity to provide sustainable...

… right to make sure we get on camera. I teach her the red carpet hustle, which is five steps forward, three steps back, one inch behind a couture-clad nominee. We greet Kevin Huvane as Sandra Bullock is talking to ABC-TV and a billion people see me wearing a black Marchesa gown....