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...thing that the ‘60s are still controversial—that means nobody’s lost yet.”Brokaw, best known as the managing editor and anchor of “NBC Nightly News” for 21 years, is also the author of four best-selling books, most notably “The Greatest Generation.” At the event, which was sponsored by the Harvard Book Store, he presented his latest, “BOOM!: Voices of the Sixties,” combining anecdotes from his life, a brief retelling...
...resemble the parables Gomes describes as “Jesus’ most effective teaching instruments.” These may have worked well for Jesus, but then again, his audience was generally uneducated.Gomes’s message is not revolutionary, nor is it particularly novel, as the author acknowledges himself, but it comes at a time when it is necessary: the increase in the prominence of fundamentalist faiths over the last decades alone makes Gomes’s book relevant. Gomes is right in his diagnosis of the church’s ailment as religion for the status...
...first election. The new study by the Student PIRGs also evaluated different ways to overcome the effect of these laws. “We had a theory that there are things you can do to mitigate it,” said David J. Rosenfeld, the study’s author and the director of the Student PIRGs’ national program. In Arizona, those wanting to register to vote were required to provide an Arizona driver’s license number or identification card. People without one of these were required to produce a birth certificate or passport?...
...Almost the first thing taught to agents is 'Never trust an informant,'" says Dennis G. Fitzgerald, a former agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the author of a 2007 book, Informants and Undercover Investigations: A Practical Guide to Law, Policy and Practice. But out of necessity, informants are now foot soldiers in the government's fight against terrorism. The FBI has nowhere near enough agents who can pass as young Muslim extremists. "They need informants. Two FBI agents from Duluth are not going to make it," says Jenkins of Rand. So agents delegate the job to laypeople with...
...intelligence report to his advantage in dealing with Iran. "He could have said to the Iranians, 'This document shows that we're not rushing to war. We're not out to get you,'" said Kenneth Pollack, a National Security Council staff member during the Clinton Administration and author of The Persian Puzzle. "'But we - and the rest of the world - are very concerned about your uranium-enrichment program, and so let's sit down and talk about...