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...system, for the simple reason that oftentimes different rules and values conflict. All policy decisions are inherently and fundamentally about trade-offs; in economic terms, do the benefits outweigh the costs? The ROTC debate is no different. The question to ask, therefore, is do the benefits of encouraging the brightest students of our generation to have a career in the military outweigh the unmistakable unfairness of the military’s anti-gay bias? I think that the answer...
...brightest spot of the game for the ECAC was Huggon, a New Hampshire junior, who impressively stopped 34 of 39 shots and did not allow a soft goal all afternoon...
...this book as a sequel to The Best and the Brightest...
...think of it as a younger sibling to The Best and the Brightest. I hadn’t gone into that venue in 29 years, publication date to publication date. It’s going back into the same territory, but it’s different. That was more a portrait of the architects. This is more a portrait of a nation, of a society at a historic moment at the end of the Cold War and how it behaves. There’s something larger at stake, which is the change in a society when transformative events take place...
Halberstam, a former sports editor and managing editor of The Crimson, has been here before: War in a Time of Peace is a “younger sibling,” he says, to The Best and the Brightest (1972), his renowned account of the men who led the U.S. into the war in Vietnam. After covering the early civil rights movement and reporting in the field from Vietnam—for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1964—Halberstam left the New York Times in 1967 and began to write books full-time two years later...