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...first draft of this column was great. It was a broad critique of the Institute of Politics (IOP) as an organization that, too often, is a place for political ambition instead of political ideals and inspiration. It was pointed and angry and, best of all, it had that “stick it to the man” quality that is oh so satisfying...
...that is why it was there, on a bend in the famed seafront corniche just by the five-star Phoenicia Hotel, that a thunderous explosion blew apart Hariri's armor-plated convoy, killing him and 14 others. As the blast showered the pavement with broken glass and sent a column of black smoke into the sky, suspicion quickly focused on the country that has used political assassination to maintain its dominion over Lebanon for three decades: Syria. Though Damascus denied involvement, anti-Syrian emotions were unleashed in the streets of Beirut, where tens of thousands of mourners from across Lebanon...
...Iraqi purchase, yet the Administration continued to make the charge right up until the beginning of the war. After Wilson revealed his tale in July 2003, Plame's name may have been leaked in retaliation. TIME's online story, written chiefly by Cooper, appeared three days after Novak's column, and it wasn't long after that the CIA asked the Justice Department to investigate the leak. A 1982 law made it illegal for government officials to disclose the identity of a covert agent...
Keeping readers abreast of current releases is one of the goals of this column, so I beg your forgiveness for bringing up a book that is over 70 years old. To be fair, it hasn't been seen since its original print of only a few hundred copies back in 1931. But Manga Yonin Shosei by Yoshitaka Kiyama, translated as "The Four Immigrants Manga" (Stone Bridge Press; 152 pages; $15), arrives as nothing short of a history-making revelation: America's (and the world's) first graphic novel. In spite of the Japanese title, author and main characters, "Four Immigrants...
Stephen W. Stromberg ’05 is a Russian studies concentrator in Adams House. His column appears on alternate Fridays...