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Lieberman has a chance to fuse these diverse strains and overcome Americans' preconceived ideas about Jews, especially Orthodox Jews. Ironically, those preconceived notions may be strongest among the same liberal ethnic Jews who are themselves so well-represented. The day after the announcement, I asked a Jewish friend what his...
Back at Yale after the election, a famous story goes, W. ran into the school's high-profile chaplain, William Sloane Coffin, himself a blue-blooded Yale alum and contemporary of W.'s father's. "I knew your father," he told the son, "and your father lost to a better...
Perhaps the farther away from Harvard you get, the easier it is to see how extensive its influence is around the world. Currently, we are as physically far away from the school as we will ever be in our lives and yet, it is hard to find anyone who does...
By the time the meal drew to a close, I was satiated, both spiritually - take that, overpaid politicos! I can eat right next to you! - and physically. I strolled to the front door, stepped out into the humidity and headed back to the hotel, momentarily content in the knowledge that...
My favorite scenic attraction is the canyon, or reverse mountain, especially when it occurs on a flat surface, such as the Grand Canyon. You get the best of both worlds here: levelness, or platitude, and de-elevation. And the magnificence of the erosionary process. And when you go visit, you...