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Alums recall Kristof as one of the brightest undergraduates on campus—he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in three years and earned a Rhodes Scholarship. But he didn’t strike his peers as the type who would be held up at machine-gunpoint in Beirut and elude rebels chasing him through the jungle in Congo...
...Although candidates are screened by an unaccountable group of religious élites, Iran is a far cry from many other countries. It is easy to advocate for more representative democracies, but would we necessarily accept the results if Egyptians or Pakistanis were granted a genuine vote? Our hypocrisy shines brightest with Saudi Arabia. There are few nations in the world that are so lacking in what we Americans call basic freedoms, let alone elections. Jason Wojcechowskyj, Sarasota, Florida...
...Respectable Game Show was a phenomenon of the atomic-age early days of TV, when postwar America embraced the idea of meritocracy and trusted in the best and brightest to conquer space and whup the Russkies. What's My Line? and To Tell the Truth were urbane soirées, frequented by brainiacs and swells like publisher Bennett Cerf and arts advocate Kitty Carlisle, and quiz shows celebrated academics. Twenty-One scandalized the nation--and isn't it quaint to think of Americans being scandalized over a game show?--because people wanted to believe in intellectual Charles Van Doren...
...decades, the soft-spoken gentle giant of tap ran a world-renowned New York City studio. Among his credits: choreographing films (The Cotton Club, Tap) and Broadway musicals (Sophisticated Ladies, Eubie!, Black and Blue--the last of which won him a Tony). He mentored some of tap's brightest stars, including Gregory Hines, Savion Glover, Chita Rivera and Ben Vereen...
...settlers came with ideas they had to junk. Some of their brightest hopes were false. They worked hard and got other people to do their work for them. They were foolish, fierce and surprisingly stubborn. When one thing failed, they tried another. We are their descendants...