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...Hagan drew more than a fleeting glance from not just a selection of the Crimson’s Ivy rivals, but a bevy of schools prominent in Division I-A. Most notably Boston College, Colorado, Minnesota and Vanderbilt tendered scholarship offers, while Stanford—where his elder brother David occupies a spot in the baseball team’s starting rotation—showed similar interest but did not make a formal...
...agents has been deliberately tainted. An official in Karzai's office says the Afghan President told Bagram commanders that translators hired by the U.S. had been infiltrated by Taliban sympathizers. His complaint came after one of them misled U.S. forces into raiding the house of an allied tribal elder. Now U.S. garrisons try to use Afghan Americans who can speak Pashtu fluently, but they don't necessarily understand tribal feuds...
Roosevelt and Churchill were born eight years apart (Churchill being the elder). As Meacham writes, "They loved tobacco, strong drink, history, the sea, battleships, hymns, pageantry, patriotic poetry, high office, and hearing themselves talk. 'Being with them was like sitting between two lions roaring at the same time,' said [Churchill's daughter] Mary Soames." Each had a powerful sense of the stagecraft of statesmanship. Each was physically brave, profoundly ambitious, a consummate actor and a superb politician. Each was the son of a rich American mother. (Roosevelt, infinitely doted upon, had a happy childhood; Churchill was famously neglected...
...agents has been deliberately tainted. An official in Karzai's office says the Afghan President told Bagram commanders that translators hired by the U.S. had been infiltrated by Taliban sympathizers. His complaint came after one of them misled U.S. forces into raiding the house of an allied tribal elder. Now U.S. garrisons try to use Afghan Americans who can speak Pashtu fluently, but they don't necessarily understand tribal feuds...
...though, a few new movies have boldly decided to go into essentially unmapped box-office territory and show some of our old movie pals nakedly enjoying elder sex. The theory is swell, even inviting to those of us not yet confined to our chimney corners. But alas, the films in question are smirky and joyless...