Had the allies of World War II been prepared with a sufficient number of so pedestrian a thing as landing craft, the war might have been cheated of a year and a half and many millions of lives.

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Suharto's rule has always been a tug-of-war between technocrats and cronies, between those who craft policy and those who dispense patronage.

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After the war, when the founding fathers reassembled in Philadelphia to craft the U.S. Constitution, Washington was named president of the Constitutional Convention, and he willingly served.

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