1.The destruction of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center made a symbolic statement that reverberated around the world,and the fact that people could watch the event on their television sets endowed it with an emotional impact that no terrorist act had ever achieved before.
2.The very first sentence of the September 2002 National Security Strategy (the President's annual laying out to Congress of the country's security objectives) reads,"The great struggles of the twentieth century between liberty and totalitarianism ended with a decisive victory for the forces of freedom and a single sustainable model for national success: freedom,democracy,and free enterprise.
3.He must also put to rest questions of scandal,including charges that Boeing competed for rocket projects with a competitor's proprietary documents,lobbied aggressively foe a 17 dollar billion deal to lease refueling tankers,and dangled a job in front of a key Air Force official during the tanker talks
4.The Air Force needs the billions because if the tanker deal is revived and most military experts think it will be the Air Force will have to pay for 80 of the refueling planes upfornt rather than lease them.
5.But it is not unfair to judge those who got Irap wrong and thought five months ago that the mission of those young men,now hankering down for a longer tour of duty than they ever expected,was over.It is not.
6.The Walls Unit,named after the 32-foot-high brick wall that surrounds the facility,was built in 1848 and house 1,700 inmates and the "Death House",where executions take place.
7.The college wouldn't be the college without the prison because our biggest program is the criminal justice program and it wouldn't be as extensive as it is without the neighboring prison system.'
8."The power to make life and death decisions is the most sobering responsiblity imaginable.I have always exercised this power with the gravity due such a decision,and I will continue to review each capital punishment case brought before me to ensure that due process is served."
9.For some cities of online learning,the Internet is a tool that can legitimately be used for many types of vocational training but not to replace the college experience.
10.The most important factor is diversity.American higher education is not just more varied,but has less of the crippling snobbery and resentment that accompanies variety in,say,Britain.
11.That contrasts with the two extremes across the Atlantic.In Britain,performance is so minutely measured by the state that it stultifies the efforts of the brilliant,without really rooting out the incompetent and lazy.