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...also wants to be Dave Matthews, Brett Favre and Ernest Hemingway...
...addition to Ferguson, the historians on the panel were Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs and Director of Graduate Studies Sugata Bose, Northwestern University history professor Mark Bradley and London School of Economics professor Dominic Lieven. Warren Professor of American History Ernest R. May moderated...
...whole new kind of pain came last week, when Tilden learned of the arrest of Henry Reid, the director of the UCLA willed-body program, and Ernest Nelson, a former mortuary worker. Reid was arrested on suspicion of grand theft, and is thought to have illegally sold body parts for profit from some 500 cadavers in the UCLA cooler--Kim's possibly among them--to Nelson, who was arrested on suspicion of receiving stolen property. Nelson, who used a power saw to dismember the bodies, says he paid $700,000 for the parts and received fees to transfer them...
...Every sailor who served under Lieutenant John Kerry on Swift boats PCF-44 and PCF-94 have gushed about his poise under enemy fire. They tell stories of his rescuing a Green Beret from drowning, killing a Viet Cong sniper, and saving 42 Vietnamese civilians from starvation. To paraphrase Ernest Hemingway they claim that in combat Kerry exemplified ?grace under pressure.? But PCF-44 Gunner?s Mate Stephen M. Gardner-in a long telephone interview from his home in Clover, South Carolina-has a starkly different memory. ?Kerry was chickenshit,? he insists. ?Whenever a firefight started he always pulled...
...Bush administration had just been ushered into Washington—and the government was performing a talent search, looking for the most energetic and brightest minds. Erdmann had been highly recommended to Haass by his dissertation advisor (and old friend of Haass’), Warren Professor of American History Ernest...