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After 27 years in the public eye, Bernard-Henri Lévy is France's iconic postmodern intellectual. A writer, director, philosopher and humanitarian activist, he has been called everything but shy. Since he burst into public view in 1977 as a founding member of the "new philosopher" movement - which urged action over purely conceptual thought, and broke leftist ranks by denouncing Soviet communism as fascism - the mediagenic BHL (as he's usually known) has been relentless. He has published countless essays and more than 30 books, including his 2003 "investi-novel" Who Killed Daniel Pearl?, a partly fictionalized investigation...
Bush turned to Chertoff, a judge who sits on the Third Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals, to head the DHS after his first choice for the position—Bernard B. Kerik—withdrew his name last month...
Sharansky is not the first author in the presidential book club. Bush has also been host to, among others, Yale historian John Lewis Gaddis and Middle East scholar Bernard Lewis. These sessions undermine Bush's own anti-intellectual posture. He boasts about not reading newspapers or being worried much about the judgments of historians, most of whom, he says, "wouldn't have voted for me." But in his readings and talks with authors, he is seeking theoretical scaffolding for his actions from the pointy-headed intellectuals he often appears to disdain, rather than combing through their pages looking for ideas...
Charleston forwards Stanley and Bernard Jackson and center Josh Jackson dominated the interior, combining for 42 points, 15 boards and four blocks. The outburst came in relatively limited action, as none of the three spent more than 24 minutes on the floor, and they averaged just 21 minutes a piece...
Charleston freshman center Josh Jackson (6'7, 250 lbs.) proved the hardest for the Crimson to control under the net, leading all scorers with 22 points. A Jackson trio crippled Harvard, as Josh Jackson combined with senior guard Stanley Jackson and senior forward Bernard Jackson to put up 42 points. Stanley Jackson led rebounding for the Cougars, with seven, while Bernard Jackson posted eight points and five rebounds...