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Because it takes months for a book to go to press, it is entirely coincidence that Junger’s last chapter, the most recent essay, narrates his time last year with Ahmed Shah Massoud, then the leader of Afghanistan’s rebel Northern Alliance. Last year, when Junger spent a month with Massoud in the mountains of the Afghanistan, Massoud was an unknown in the western world—despite orchestrating some of the most brilliant warfare waged in the 1980s and 1990s and holding off first the Soviet Army and then the Taliban regime for years. Many...
Tony Award-winner Ron Holgate (1776) plays the title role, and Tony-nominee Anita Gillette (Chapter Two), Hortense, his aging lover. Holgate creates a powerful character and infuses “I Am Free,” “The First Time” and the show’s other standards with energy and life. Gillette’s “Only Love,” though barely sung, is delicate and pleasant. As for the supporting players, Glory Crampton and Natalie Toro add terrific vocal presence as the Widow and the Leader, respectively; Franc...
While Halberstam nicely wraps up the stories of the characters he has been following throughout the book in the final chapter, the ending still seems somewhat abrupt. After explaining in exhaustive detail the course of American foreign policy—and domestic presidential politics—over the past decade, he is content to devote his final page to a rushed rundown of President George W. Bush’s first few months in office. The conclusion is not so much an ending as an added segment in a continuing story, but it has, in the aftermath of Sept...
Mikva’s speech, in Austin Hall at Harvard Law School (HLS), marked the first major event sponsored by the HLS chapter of the American Constitution Society (ACS), a student group organized to further liberal causes at law school campuses throughout the nation and combat the formindable influence of the conservative Federalist Society...
While my roommate struggles each night through chapter after chapter of hellish chemistry bore, I read about hermaphrodites and the 14 sexes. While my other roommate memorizes every artism there ever was, I ponder the implications of Freud’s theory of female penis-envy on modern relationships. It’s a great life; I’d highly recommend...