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...that I would criticize my classmates. This particular “Crazy Hakim”—as the film credits identify the crackpot Scheherazade-cum-shopkeeper figure I played—is wasting her time with poetry and European languages. Not exactly among those things President Bush has recently announced to be “critical” to national interests...
...Harvard in the spring of 1989, Yoo’s 128-page thesis—which earned him a summa cum laude distinction—comprised an analysis of the three presidents’ foreign policies, but did not advocate for any one of them. He characterized the diplomacy during the sixteen years that he reviewed as a vacillation between two poles: “re-asserting American leadership, or devolving responsibility for defending Europe to the Europeans...
This morally ambiguous world populated by the imperfect is resonant and real—and it is vintage Connelly. Bitter detectives, sympathetic thieves, and model citizens-cum-pedophiles pervade the former journalist’s other books, almost all of which have been bestsellers...
Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff was 21 when he graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in the summer of 1975. A couple of months earlier, the New Jersey native had submitted his senior thesis to the History Department. In his thesis, Chertoff sharply criticized the “incomplete, if not pernicious” utilitarian philosophy of Jeremy Bentham. Nearly a third of the 110-page essay was devoted to attacking what Chertoff saw as Bentham’s disregard for individual rights. But during Chertoff’s more recent record with the Bush administration, his view...
Friedan graduated summa cum laude from Smith College in 1942, where she also served as an editor of the campus newspaper. She spent a year as a graduate student in psychology at the University of California, Berkeley and later left to become a journalist...