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...says anything worthwhile about the war in Iraq? The same goes for John McCain. As he panders more and more to the evangelical right and other demographics that he hasn’t relied on for votes in the past, his words quickly become devoid of any honesty. If Donald Rumsfeld were to speak at Harvard tomorrow, there is not a chance that I would stifle my wrath...
...When George W. Bush shook up his White House staff a few weeks ago, the smart money in town took a decidedly blase attitude about it. Wake me, said a longtime Republican player, when they dump [Defense Secretary Donald] Rumsfeld and [Treasury Secretary John] Snow. Until then, he added, it's not a policy change of much significance...
...Should Donald Rumsfeld or Jerry Falwell come to speak at Harvard’s commencement, I might vomit a little in my mouth, and I would certainly disagree vehemently from the audience, but it would take a lot to get me to issue jeers or to criticize the University for their invitation. Having dated a Republican, I can attest: you learn more (about being a liberal, about politics in general) from listening and engaging in productive debate than you do from heckling. Understanding the counterargument can only help your argument...
...citizens of film"), a baseball fan in the age of Ruth and DiMaggio, a motorist when cars had wooden-spoked wheels, a drinker during the ascendancy of the martini and a New Yorker editor of sufficiently long standing to have worked with William Shawn, James Thurber, Ogden Nash and Donald Barthelme. He was born lucky and he knows it, but he also knows that luck is never quite enough. "Life is tough and brimming with loss," Angell writes, "and the most we can do about it is to glimpse ourselves clear now and then...
...Some of Brennan's colleagues don't take the same view. Colonel Donald Jenkins, who served with Brennan and currently oversees U.S. military trauma care in Iraq and Afghanistan, sees benefits in the exposure. "I think it's really good for the families of the medics, nurses, and physicians to see this from another perspective," he says, and the families of those deployed "can be comforted by knowing what fantastic trauma care is available to their kids." Another possible result, Jenkins sees, is the film's potential as a recruitment tool for military medicine. "I believe people are motivated when...