I must admit that I'm quite ignorant about that.

Send one plane it's a sortie; send two it's a flight; send four and it's a test of airpower.

No one wants to call the attention of the public to bloodletting and heroism and the horrifying character of combat. What situation can be imagined that would promote the war and not remind people of its ambivalence?

I don't see any malicious political intent here ? just myopia and shortsightedness.

In short, with each of the thousand-and-one problems that present themselves in family life, our choice is between controlling and teaching, between creating an atmosphere of distrust and one of trust, between setting an example of power and helping children to learn responsibility, between quick-fix parenting and the kind that's focused on long-term goals.

In the courtroom, the tie goes to the defendant.