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A course in entrepreneurship can help students look at the world through a new responsible perspective. It can transform once pessimistic individuals into bright-eyed risk-takers who foresee an economic revolution. It cannot automatically inculcate the value of wealth creation but it opens up possibilities that could be pursued by talented and predisposed students. University outreach programs can help much in this regard.
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There is no question that the Vietnam War scarred the American psyche deeply, nor that it continues to influence American foreign policy and military strategy profoundly. However, Kagan negates popular notion that equates America's battle in Iraq with Vietnam. He stresses that the only thing the insurgencies in Iraq and Vietnam have in common is that in both cases American forces have fought revolutionaries.
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The Iraqi government will need to co-opt credible elements in the insurgency to oppose American presence in Iraq. Together, they could fight against the insurgents who do not have a unified Iraq's interests in mind. This is the only way for Iraq to build a legitimate government representative of all Iraqis. American revolutionaries had to fight British colonial control and resist French influence to gain independence. President [Bush] must understand that this must ultimately be about Iraqi independence, not U.S. control. Keeping Iraq as an American proxy in the Middle East will make it into another failed state. Secondly, Bush should oppose further Israeli unilateralism. When Israel imposes its will on the Palestinians, peace prospects are damaged deeply. However, when PM Ariel Sharon ...
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PARIS - The program to oust the Occupy Wall Street movement from its sites of occupation is now underway. The Occupied, who own the police, have grown tired of the Occupation. The advantage they possess is that the Occupiers have not provided a coherent statement of what they want. Their other advantage is that Americans are not revolutionaries - after all, isn't the American system the best in the world?
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Few concepts have been more important - yet perpetually maligned - for human survival than the concept of private-. Since at least the time of Aristotle, the superiority of private property over collective ownership in generating incentives to use scarce resources effectively has been recognized. It was a core idea of American revolutionaries like Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and George Washington. Our nation arose when ordinary citizens reacted to the overreach of government - in defense of their rights and the simple idea that any government funded by the people should respect its citizenry, act appropriately toward them and protect their freedom, not usurp it.
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BY MATTHEW BOWERS THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
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About 5,000 British troops came ashore at Closter Dock in Alpine on Nov. 20, 1776, setting the stage for the redcoats to capture Fort Lee from the upstart American revolutionaries later in the day. On Saturday, four "soldiers" with red coats, muskets and goatskin backpacks along with a dozen or so intrepid "civilians" re- created the climb up the Palisades toward the site named after Gen. Charles Lee, who would be court-martialed two years later for disobeying Gen. George Washington's orders during the Battle of Monmouth.
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The revolutionaries are dying off. Earlier this month, and just ahead of [Fidel Castro]'s 80th birthday, Gustavo Arcos Bergnes died at 79. Arcos is now hardly known, unlike 'Che' Guevara who became an international revolutionary hero and whose image [not Castro's] appears everywhere in Cuba. Gustavo Arcos was shot in the right hip and partially paralysed in the July 26, 1953 failed attack on the Moncado army barracks. Among those killed in the ill-fated Granma landing, when the revolutionaries later 'invaded' from Mexico where they had regrouped, was Gustavo's brother Luis. Gustavo himself was made ambassador to Belgium after the revolution triumphed in 1959 but became disillusioned by the growing authoritarianism of the Castro regime. Last year the ailing Arcos complained in an Associa...
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The newspaper headlines in 1917 read a lot like today's. Except back then it was Pancho Villa and not Osama bin Laden who was still on the loose after having killed and wounded American citizens on U.S. soil. (Mexican revolutionaries were called "bandits," rather than "terrorists," by the American media.) President Wilson, who wanted Villa "dead or alive," had sent American troops to northern Mexico, but Villa hid in a desert cave. Reminiscent of the situation in present-day Iraq, General Pershing's troops got stuck in a quagmire and were sniped at by guerilleros, civilians, and even Mexican government troops who had formerly been allied with the Americans. The American forces returned home empty-handed. Then World War I created an even greater mass hysteria against pacifists, activists...
