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...right. Nothing did. From October on, duct tape held up my bathroom windowpane. I realize now that it was my fault, in part. The system here doesn't accommodate you, it ignores you. I shouldn't have taken a nod for an answer. I should have made life difficult for the Dunster House superintendent until somebody fixed my windowpane...
When such personal convictions are projected onto the entire nation, they give rise to a militant patriotism based on a no-fault Russia. This is expressed today in its most virulent form by the neofascist Pamyat movement, which wants to absolve Russians of responsibility for the horrors of the communist era. Pamyat contends that the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution was actually conceived and carried out by Freemasons and Jews. The search for scapegoats was a national passion long before Stalin filled the docks at show trials, and the fall of the Soviet Union has sparked another round of finger pointing. This...
...wrote books in which he was the hero; a man who rarely taught classes or took on doctoral students but is regarded as one of physics' great teachers. If some questions remain about exactly what made Feynman Feynman, and not just a garden-variety genius, that is no fault of Gleick's. A magician who reveals all his secrets, even from beyond the grave, is a magician no longer...
...told him I wasn't surprised. Not too many Harvard students are interested in speaking with Stehley. It's not his fault, really...
Stephanopoulos has little time these days for his Stairmaster workouts or visits to his girlfriend, a Philadelphia lawyer. He is looking to move out of his Adams Morgan apartment and into a new place. Gripped by his well-known pessimism -- when he wasn't saying, "That's my fault" during the campaign, he was intoning, "It's over" -- he couldn't let himself believe that Clinton had won until 5 p.m. on Election Day. "I called the mansion with a huge case of butterflies because I knew I wouldn't be talking to the same person anymore...