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There has never been any question about Mark Helprin's talent, and since his first books of fiction, A Dove of the East and Refiner's Fire, he has seemed on the point of accomplishing marvels. He has also seemed -- notably in Winter's Tale, an overblown fantasy starring an annoying magical horse -- to be a posturer incapable of modulating eloquence or intensity, a too appreciative taster of his own words, a gifted windbag...
Later, the future president of the world's most prestigious institution of higher learning dove into the back of a limousine like a common criminal...
...FIRST TIME that Harvard's student press encountered Neil Rudenstine, he was slipping out a side entrance of Boston's Ritz Carlton Hotel. His head buried in his jacket to shield his face from the cameras, Rudenstine dove into a waiting limousine, reportedly slouching behind the tinted windows to avoid the gaze of a small band of reporters...
Rebuffed by party leaders who insisted on a policy of indefinite sanctions, the longtime dove and '60s peacenik from Brooklyn wrote in the New Republic, "If Democrats are not prepared to support the use of force in a situation like this, when the aggression is so unambiguous, the international community so cohesive and the stakes so great, how can anyone ever expect the Democratic Party to support the use of force in defense of vital American interests in the far more common circumstances of confusion, ambiguity and uncertainty...
Friends recall that if Thom dove into something, from emergency medical training to playing basketball in high school, he gave it his best. "He never made the first string, but he was always close," says Jon Turner, his English teacher and a Vietnam vet. "If he got in, he'd win the game for you." That was true whether he was square dancing as a kid or out on a county search-and- rescue mission. His steady marksmanship enabled him to bag a four-point buck, whose weathered rack sits on a fence beside his house. Around town, folks knew...