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...land of one-man, one-vote elections. For his part, Nelson Mandela has always taken the path of most resistance. The son of a Thembu chief, Mandela was groomed to be a traditional tribal leader but chose instead to become an outlaw in his own land, a man who fought an iniquitous system, not one who abided by it. During the 27 years he was imprisoned by a repressive white minority government, he kept a vision of a nonracist, color-blind society in which white and black lived together in harmony. During his imprisonment, it was he who first stretched...
...Chosin, One Bugle No Drums, published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, N.C., neatly avoids this trap.) Knox's book does not entirely forswear such an approach. But for the most part, the story is told in the unadorned, often eloquent words of the American dogfaces and grunts who fought there. The painfully complete, troop-movement-by-troop-movement narrative chronicles the war from its beginning to the Marines' heroic breakout at the frozen Chosin Reservoir in 1950. The story unfolds chronologically, with multiple, overlapping narrators. This is war as professional soldiers remember it, calmly and often impersonally; moral nuances...
...purity balls have thus become a proxy in the wider war over means and ends. It is being fought in Congress, where lawmakers debate whether to keep funding abstinence-only education in the face of studies showing it doesn't work; in the culture, as Lindsay and Britney and Miley march in single file off a cliff; at school-board meetings, where members argue over the signal sent by including condoms in the prom bag; at the dinner table, where parents try to transmit values to children, knowing full well that swarms of other messages are landing by text...
...Murcer fought through brain cancer to call games last season. "Though I've become something of a weeper," he wrote in his autobiography, Yankee for Life, released this spring, "I find myself laughing as much as I ever did, if not more." Somewhere he and Scooter are keeping them hootin...
Asani was first considered for tenure in 1992. But he said he was told then that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences did not have the funds to create another professorship. When Asani was offered tenure at the University of Bonn in Germany that year, Harvard fought to keep him, Eck said, by making him a professor of the practice in the departments of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (NELC) and the Study of Religion. The seat is a senior position with five-year contracts...