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...Donald Hall...
There’s no question that Donald Hall ’51 is a Harvard man. America’s new poet laureate learned to party at the Advocate. He remembers getting drunk with Dylan Thomas and staying up late arguing with his arty friends, all of whom wanted to be the poetic voices of their generation...
...DIED. Donald Reilly, 72, cartoonist for magazines including the Saturday Evening Post and the New Yorker, for which he drew 16 covers; of cancer; in Norwalk, Conn. Reilly mocked the foibles of anxious yuppies and overwrought parents in edgy yet goofy pieces. In one, a woman standing with her young son near a museum's dinosaur skeleton warns him, "They got extinct because they didn't listen to their mommies...
...That's the America I know and love. But it is not, alas, the only face of America in this war. One of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's first instructions for military interrogations outside the Geneva Conventions was that military doctors should be involved in monitoring torture. It was a fateful decision - and we learn much more about its consequences in a new book based on 35,000 pages of government documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. The book is called Oath Betrayed (to be published June 27) by medical ethicist Dr. Stephen Miles...
...plan, which is expected to receive its final legislative approval this week, represents a political victory for Chief Executive Donald Tsang. "He wants to leave a mark in history," says Ma Ngok, a political scientist at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. "Of course, Donald hasn't achieved a lot of concrete things, so this may be one thing he can secure within his term of office...