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...Harvard forecheck is keeping Cornell at bay, and the Big Red can't seem to set up its offense...
...speaking engagements at Harvard Law School and the Radcliffe Institute in June 2006, Greenhouse spiced her remarks with a bit of her own beliefs.“I could tell you that rule of law is hanging by a thread stressed by law-free zones like Guantanamo Bay, Congress, or other places,” said Greenhouse to her Law School audience. “I could tell you that the Supreme Court may be our last, best hope, but I’m a journalist who after all are not suppose to have opinions.” Greenhouse?...
...Oscars Blooper Reel Richard Corliss is justified in griping about incorrectly awarded Academy Awards [Feb. 25]. There should be retrospective awards to correct past errors of judgment. Jan Schaafsma Betty's Bay, South Africa...
...torch was passed to a new generation of Americans, and a charismatic young President, gifted as a speechmaker but little tested as an executive, was finding his way through his first 100 days. On Day 85, he stumbled, and the result for John F. Kennedy was the disastrous Bay of Pigs...
...moral of the Bay of Pigs is "Beware of charisma" or "Timeworn trumps callow," what do we make of the mistakes and miscalculations of deeply experienced leaders? Franklin D. Roosevelt's failed court-packing scheme, for example, or Woodrow Wilson's postwar foreign policy? For that matter, Kennedy would not have faced such a harsh early tutorial if the venerable warrior and statesman Dwight D. Eisenhower had not allowed the Cuba-invasion plan to be put in motion during the last of his eight years as President...