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...when Mark Bowden calls the embassy drama "the first battle in America's war against militant Islam," that sounds about right. Guests of the Ayatollah (Atlantic Monthly Press; 680 pages) is his detailed and bleakly compelling account of what the hostages endured during the siege and of the anguish it produced in the U.S. The author of Black Hawk Down, about the 1993 U.S. military mission in Mogadishu that went lethally wrong, Bowden knows something about American misadventures in the wider world. He may not be a policy analyst, but he writes about events in a way that gives...
...admissions tracks into Harvard—one for athletes and one for everyone else—institutionalize the disconnect between athletes and non-athletes that former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 laments. Lewis holds students and people like former Princeton president William G. Bowden responsible for not regarding athletes as “regular students,” and charges that this attitude of “public contempt” is the last acceptable prejudice at Harvard. I share his concern. But it is primarily the policies of the College itself...
That's where Sam Bowden, 34, and Byron Conaway, 30, come in. The former undercover narcotics detectives were assigned to the state's attorney's office full time in September 2004. Since then they have been assigned to serve more than 300 summonses and body attachments (special incarceration warrants for witnesses who don't want to be found). It can be a maddening chase at times. Wearing baggy street clothes with Kevlar vests underneath, the two troll the city's grim row houses looking for witnesses who are, as often as not, "in the game" themselves, part of the same...
That promise is too distant for the very present danger Alvin Chalmers faces. His pleading with detectives Conaway and Bowden in the car on the way to central booking has fallen on deaf ears, so Chalmers takes a new tack, rehearsing what he will probably say on the stand. "I was high when it happened," he says over and over. "I don't remember anything...
...Bowden has joined an institution that’s hard to leave. Pension plans tempt veterans to stay on board, and there’s the pride of the hard hat and fire truck. Then there’s the camaraderie built on mutual meals, a shared house, and relying on the next person for your life. It offers something that Bowden might not find in another line of work—a sense of family...