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...Making a Timely Exit In "The Fine Art of Dying Well" [March 12], Charles Krauthammer observed that timing is everything, even when it comes to death. This reminded me of three deaths that occurred on Nov. 22, 1963. Many Americans recall it as the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, but few remember that two prominent British men of letters died on that day as well. Talk about being overshadowed. One of them was C.S. Lewis, the Christian apologist and writer of children's stories; the other was Aldous Huxley, the novelist and essayist, member of the famous Huxley...
...Harvard coach Jay Weiss said. “That’s what we trained for and everything just came together.” All four Crimson wrestlers reached the round of 12 at the tournament, where a win means an All-American nod and a loss means an exit. “If you have one [wrestler] in the round of 12, it’s nerve-racking,” Weiss said. “But we had four, and three of them back-to-back.” Tri-captain Max Meltzer (141 lbs.) came back...
Making a Timely Exit...
Port Gentil is no ordinary town. That much is clear from the moment you touch down in the small coastal city in the West African nation of Gabon. Next to the airport exit, a gaggle of shrieking, minimally dressed women dance to loud rock on the terrace of a bar called Le Aero Club. "Come fly me!" one shouts down. Instead, I accept a taxi driver's offer of a ride into town - a 10-minute drive that costs $30. We drive past another bar, A Qui La Tour? - which roughly translates as "Whose round is it?" although the driver...
...Kerry, 40,000 more troops will probably do the job.) Maybe if Ian Shapiro had written “Containment: Rebuilding a Strategy Against Global Terror” a few years earlier, the United States wouldn’t be up to its elbows in dead soldiers without an exit strategy. “Containment” is both a forceful critique of current foreign policy and a prescriptive response to it. Shapiro, a Yale political science professor, argues in favor of renewing the policies of containment first put forth by George Kennan in his historic “Long...