Word: finkel
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...just finished a remarkable book called The Good Soldiers, by David Finkel. It is the best grunt's-eye view of the war in Iraq that I've read; certainly, it's the best written. But it also raises, implicitly, the mystery of our qualified success there. Finkel follows an Army battalion through the 2007 surge, as it attempts to secure a particularly nasty and neglected area of Baghdad. This was the first attempt to implement the Army's new counterinsurgency doctrine, and the troops have their doubts about the new tactics. Major Brent Cummings, the second-in-command, reads...
...read with fascination your article on museum curator Irving Finkel and his researches into the Royal Game of Ur. But I take issue with his claim that Monopoly introduced the last "momentous" innovation in board games. In fact, the last 15 years have seen great innovations in board-game design. One game, Settlers of Catan, has almost single-handedly sparked a renaissance in board gaming in Europe. And retoolings of classic American games like Risk have introduced ideas that leave many older games in the dust. Granted, board games are a niche hobby. However, the 250,000-plus people...
Marriage was the “natural next step” for high school sweethearts Joshua Suskewicz ’05 and Rachel E. Finkel. Mr. Suskewicz, a 22-year-old English concentrator in Currier House, met Ms. Finkel, also 22, in 10th grade English class at Frisch High School in Paramus...
...their senior year, they decided to take the “serious step” of going to college in Boston together. Ms. Finkel graduated this year with a degree in art therapy from Lesley University, which is “literally two blocks” from Mr. Suskewicz’s home in the Quad. “Once that worked out well we decided we may as well make it official,” he says...
...Finkel, a guitarist and vocalist, hopes to pursue a career in music or social work, while her fiancé is interested in renewable energy. He has a simple answer when asked why the high school relationship has worked out so well. “We share the same values, tastes and goals. All in all, we have very complementary personalities.” —A.E.L...