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...Mike’s trip to Bangkok quickly becomes a sort of Thai version of “Heart of Darkness.” The country??s prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, is waging a ruthless war against drug traffickers, with innocent civilians and foreign tourists caught in the crossfire. Meanwhile, Mike tracks down his father’s onetime Holworthy Hall roommate, Christopher Dorr, a freelance journalist who has moved into a dense Bangkok shanty-town and who has become a modern-day version of Conrad’s sadistic Captain Kurtz...
...decision to take a position at his alma mater has also ignited speculation that he may be eyeing a run for the leadership of Canada’s Liberal Party. In Canadian elections, the leader of the party that wins a majority in the House of Commons becomes the country??s prime minister...
...with the understanding that ours is one of a whole bunch of rankings out there,” Wallace-Wells added. “I think that all we’re trying to do is say that this set of values—how a school serves the country??is pretty important, and there should be more discussion about it not just among students applying to schools, but within the leadership of the universities...
Like many of the other horrible and bloody marks that dot our country??s history, we have pushed our dropping of the atomic bomb largely out of sight and out of mind. Were it not for my copy of Richard Rhodes’ book “The Making of the Atomic Bomb” sitting on my desk, I would have fallen into the same trap...
This national ignorance is chilling because it is just as important to remember what happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki today as it was 50 years ago. Unlike during the Cold War, when we felt the specter of atomic warfare breathing down our backs every day and marshaled our country??s whole attention to fight it, today we live in an insulated world where Dr. Strangelove’s doomsday scenario seems like fiction. Although we hear of dirty bombs and nuclear programs, and polls have shown that most Americans fear a nuclear attack, there is not nearly...