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...book, however, quickly loses both its focus and its credibility when Fallows starts writing about himself. Fallows, a former Crimson editor and the Washington editor of The Atlantic Monthly, is an interesting person. The stories he tells about his parents moving to California when he was a child would make fascinating material for an autobiography. But it's not really clear why they are in this book, the ostensible purpose of which is to show how America differs culturally from Japan...
Kemp announced his action as congressional aides said several prominent figures in the investigation will be called to testify again, including former HUD Secretary Samuel Pierce...
Likewise, Ms. Bhutto praised her father, former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan. as a defender of democracy. Not only that, she boasted her father was the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Pakistan. Both these claims should be taken with a grain of salt. First, Mr. Bhutto refused to recognize the outcome of the Pakistan General Elections held in 1970. He persuaded the then General of Pakistan not to transfer power to the Awami League Party of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) which had clearly won the elections. This led to a genocide in which three million innocent East...
Baird Professor of History Richard Pipes is a former national security adviser to President Reagan, and the man who coined the term "evil empire" to describe the Soviet Union. He teaches a Core course on the [Russian Revolution] which is not known for its sympathetic treatment of Bolshevism...
...took the reigns of power from former President Nathan M. Pusey '28 in the wake of nearly riotous student protests which brought the University to a stand-still in the late 1960s...