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...Felix P. Johnson ’03 turned 21 last Wednesday. After 21 shots, he attempted a cartwheel while clutching a Miller High Life bottle to prove how not-drunk he was. As his proctologist euphemized the next morning, “It didn’t work out well?...
Since Dzerzhinsky was, along with Vladimir Lenin, the driving impetus behind this savagery, he was given the nickname “Iron Felix.” At his orders, captured “enemies” of the regime were often sent to forced labor and concentration camps or else just summarily killed in their jail cells. On one night alone in 1919, some 1,500 Moscow prisoners were executed at Dzerzhinsky’s command. His Cheka was also feared for its particularly sadistic methods of torture. These included shoving victims into tanks of boiling water, sawing their bones...
...1991—during a three-day coup that heralded the final demise of the Soviet Union—grateful bystanders whistled, cheered and applauded. As Princeton University professor Kathryn Stoner-Weiss observed last month in a Los Angeles Times op-ed, “The fall of Iron Felix was a bold declaration that KGB repression would have no role in Russia’s democratic future...
Perhaps out of frustration with his middling career, Muhammad left the army in 1994. Without the anchor of the service, his pursuits drifted. He and Felix Strozier, a martial arts teacher, opened a karate school. Muhammad promised to draw legions of Muslims to the school, Strozier says. But the crowds never arrived. In what would come to be something of a pattern, Muhammad also embellished his profile, bragging that he had been a special-forces member in the military, Strozier says. And he took an inappropriate interest in a young female student, showing up unannounced at her doorstep multiple times...
...teacher’s job is to be in the classroom,” he says, noting that his name comes from the Hebrew darshan—an itinerant preacher who would go from town to town to teach. Dershowitz also bears in his professorial title the name of Felix Frankfurter—a law-school professor who was appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904, to serve on the Supreme Court and was once referred to by the Saturday Evening Post as “the most single influential person in the country...