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...cheated that Vietnam was all we got? As it has turned out, the Iraq war isn't our World War II, nor is it another Vietnam. It is our World War I: a frivolous, costly, arrogant war that has set off an economic disaster, bred not just one maniac bent on genocide but a million and ended in a standstill that merely sets the stage for the next world war. Peggy Williams Mineral Ridge, Ohio...
Dedicated Lamont lovers hardly pay any attention to John, a daily fixture in the Ginsberg Reading Room. Unlike most of the other scholars, John is not bent over stacks of books or Facebook stalking on his laptop: instead, he prefers to peruse Lamont’s extensive newspaper-on-a-stick collection. Sporting his signature sideburns, students know the enigmatic John as an off-beat campus celebrity. The 64-year-old Boston native, who did not give his last name, treks over to Cambridge from nearby Fresh Pond nearly seven days a week. Upon arrival, John makes himself at home...
...role of Christianity at Harvard. According to French, who is also a third-year student at the Harvard Divinity School, the group provides a different take on religion from other faith-based groups on campus. “Most of these are of a more conservative theological bent,” he said. “We were interested in forming a group regardless of theological persuasion.” Despite a variety of perspectives on religion, the group has created a “mode of mutual respect,” said French, in which students...
Perhaps the question ofwhom toarrest and whom to send back into battle should be cast in different terms. Which should we fear more--terrorists bent on destroying a nation and an idea or domestic addicts who owe their allegiance to a drug? We might do well to take the view of Winston Churchill, who said after Adolf Hitler invaded the U.S.S.R., "If Hitler invaded hell, I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons." The terrorists are our Hitler, and the drug dealers are our U.S.S.R. We must assign a higher...
...knew why the gusto had gone out of the nurse's voice. One of the patient's arms was horribly broken and bent at an ungodly angle. She had just started a large-bore IV in the other. And while her big fat needle pierced him three or four times before it found blood, this stolid 60-year-old Eastern European block of a man had made not a sound. His face hadn't registered a flicker of pain, his arm stayed still, even his hand remained limp. No reaction to this needle torture promised an unsatisfying...