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...something to work towards,” Modi said. “I see it as a reflection of what you would have done anyway.” The twenty-four students inductees into Phi Beta Kappa are Zachary R. Abel, Zachary C. Arnold, Jeremy N. Aron-Dine, Daniel M. Bear, Malcolm G. Campbell, Brian S. Chen, Timothy H. Hsieh, Wenna Jia, Eric T. Lander, Andrew Q. Le, Christopher T. Lim, Stephanie H. Lo, Mary Anne Marks, Vikram R. Modi, Colin J. Motley, Jeffrey D. Nanney, Hamida B. Owusu, Palmer Rampell, Anthony C. Speare, Dennis L. Sun, Yi Sun, Julia...
Several months after Robinson committed suicide, Staff Sergeant Nils Aron Andersson arrived in Houston as a recruiter. Andersson had served two tours in Iraq with the 82nd Airborne and had won a Bronze Star for helping buddies pinned down in a firefight. "I asked him what he did to get it, and he just looked right at me and said, 'Doing my job, Dad, just doing my job,' and that's all he ever said," says his father Robert of Springfield, Ore. "He wouldn't talk to me about Iraq...
...Aron, as he was known, had changed in Iraq. Perhaps it was the September 2003 night he gave up his exposed seat in a Black Hawk helicopter to a younger soldier who wanted the thrill of sitting there and who ended up being the only one killed when the chopper flipped on takeoff. Or maybe it was the day Andersson's squad had to destroy a speeding suicide van headed straight at their checkpoint, despite the women and children inside...
Several months into the job, Aron threatened suicide in front of a girlfriend. After Army doctors cleared him, he returned to work. "For the two years he was in Iraq, I'd turn down the street and be terrified there'd be a car with a set of government plates on it when I got home telling me that he'd been killed," his father says. "Suicide was the last scenario I'd ever come up with...
...address to date, delivered in late March in Los Angeles. It would be a mistake, however, to dismiss him as a mouthpiece for McCain or as just another American neoconservative, for he is neither. Kagan is a realist, to be sure, reminiscent of earlier public intellectuals such as Raymond Aron, Reinhold Niebuhr and Walter Lippmann. The Return of History clocks in at a mere 100 pages. Its style is conversational, and it feels more like a breezy lecture than a weighty foreign-policy tome. Still, its message is sober and its argument subtle...