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...last time Gates faced a confirmation hearing, he took his son Brad to the Blue Ridge Mountains for a weekend of camping. He said later that was "better preparation for the battle that was about to begin" than anything else he could have done. But the battles he faces now are more likely to be with his new bosses at the White House--and perhaps with his own instincts. The Bush team has only a limited amount of time to decide what to do about Iraq. Sooner rather than later, Bob Gates will cease being all things to all people...
...from nearly six years of misrule, we are recoiling at the damage done to our institutions, the rest of the world and our future. Let's hope this election marks the first step in repairing that damage-or at least checking the power of those who would inflict more. Brad Jarvis Arvada, Colorado...
...Harvard lead to six on five occasions, the latest with 52 seconds left in the game to make the score 77-71. But the Crimson would not let Lehigh get any closer, as it made seven straight free throws to close out the contest, including four from junior forward Brad Unger, who finished the game with 11 points. In the first half, Harvard shot 52 percent from the floor and grabbed its largest lead of the season when it went up 39-17 with 1:31 remaining on its way to a 19-point halftime cushion...
...Throughout, Aronofsky pursued his own epic, The Fountain, about a man who will do anything to save his critically ailing wife. The film was to cost near $100 million and to star Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. The original financiers dropped The Fountain when those two bowed out. (They later reunited to make Babel, in which they played virtually the same roles.) Aronofsky slimmed down the budget to $35 million, cast Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz in the main roles, and made the damn movie. The whole trip, with all its frustrating detours, took six years. Then the Cannes Film...
Junior defensive end Brad Bagdis was named the 2007 captain of Harvard football at the team’s annual year-end football awards dinner last night at the Harvard Club of Boston. Thirteen Crimson players also received All-Ivy League honors, including six first-teamers...