It's scary to read the minutes of a "Special Group meeting" in November, 1960 just before Kennedy's election which included such Cold War worthies as Generals Charles Cabell and Ed Lansdale, and in which someone asks if "any real planning has been done for taking direct positive action against Fidel, Raul and Che Guevara".
The box-office battlefield has been handily divided among a few victors, some of them ("Finding Dory," "Captain America: Civil War") worthier than others ("The Secret Life of Pets," "Suicide Squad").
Crashing a cellular network might not cause a war-worthy widespread loss of life and limb, but could nonetheless make a significant — and very public — dent in the day-to-day operations of South Korea.
He began calling the F.B.I. to suggest names of terrorist financiers and war criminals worthy of prosecution: Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Henry Kissinger.
Second, it is myopic to suggest that funds dedicated to cultural change in a country at war are not worthy.
For those of us spared the terrors of war, to be worthy of our dead, is to remember them.
They'll remember their buddies, and the good times and the bad ones, and wish, perhaps, that their sad war had been worthy of them.
Officials knowledgeable about the exchange said Mr. Bush interrupted Mr. Daschle and argued that the Iraq war was a "worthy" effort and that the administration had not manipulated the evidence.
The unfortunate Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial in Washington — as unequal to its subject as Maya Lin's magnificently somber Vietnam War memorial is worthy of its — has gotten a little taste of the comeuppance it deserves.
By Hendrik Hertzberg January 15 , 2012The unfortunate Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial in Washington — as unequal to its subject as Maya Lin's magnificently somber Vietnam War memorial is worthy of its — has gotten a little taste of the comeuppance it deserves.
(Brantley) 'INHERIT THE WINDoug Hugheshes's wooden revival of this worthy war horse, based on the Scopes "monkey" trial of 1925, never musters much more velocity than a drugstore fan.
