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“This unique American moment has to a very to a very significant extent been squandered over the past eight years,” he said. “We’ve lost a sense of competence and skill in execution.”

Author: By David K. Hausman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summers Addresses KSG Forum | 11/28/2007 | See Source »

The man accused of committing the Nov. 17 murders, Daniel Tavares Jr., was released in July by Massachusetts Superior Court Judge Kathe Tuttman, whom Romney appointed in 2006, when he was still governor of that state. Tavares had just finished serving a 16-year sentence in a maximum security prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Year's Willie Horton? | 11/25/2007 | See Source »

BOSTON, MA—Despite numerous power-play opportunities, the No. 18 Harvard men’s hockey team only managed to squeak by with an overtime win against Boston University last night at the Aggannis Arena. While the Terriers slammed in their only goal the first time they had...

Author: By Courtney D. Skinner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NOTEBOOK: Electric Win Marred by Special Teams Struggles | 11/21/2007 | See Source »

Duch, a former mathematics teacher before joining the Khmer Rouge, oversaw S-21 prison with fastidious attention to detail. The prison's harrowing records survive: Mug shots of thousands of inmates, records of forced confessions elicited under torture, and post-execution photographs, which the ever-paranoid regime sometimes required as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Long-Delayed Justice in Cambodia | 11/21/2007 | See Source »

...October1967 antiwar march on the Pentagon. These were the years of Mailer at his most pyrotechnic, when he took up every kind of public intellectual battle and even ran a boisterous, quixotic and very entertaining campaign for mayor of New York City. A second Pulitzer arrived for The Executioner's Song, the spare and haunting book that came out of the execution of convicted killer Gary Gilmore. There were many other titles after that, most with moments of genius but none with the same sustained power. Nonetheless, an indispensable cultural voice was lost when Mailer died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Norman Mailer | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

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