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...afford to halt ... In the U.S., espionage was grossly neglected until the advent of the cold war. In 1929, Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson was shocked to learn that the State Department had a cryptographic bureau. He fired the founder of the code-breaking agency, observing: "Gentlemen do not read other people's mail." But since then, the U.S. has overcome these and other scruples. TIME...
...happily messy universe of neighborhoods. During a 12-year battle with powerful city planner Robert Moses, whose bid to build a highway through her former neighborhood of lower Manhattan she helped defeat, Jacobs was arrested for storming the podium at a hearing. She said, "We had been ladies and gentlemen and only got pushed around...
...busybody peasants thrust into an awkward modernity") that he regards with an Oedipal mixture of love and contempt. East and West play a hilarious game of Telephone in his head--he's obsessed with hip-hop, and he and his best friend have formed an awful duo called the Gentlemen Who Like...
...received both the National Civil Rights Museum Freedom Award and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, ended his address with an emotional plea for action. “There are so many voices calling you for help,” Rusesabagina said. “Please, ladies and gentlemen, do not be bystanders. Please, stand up and fight for justice...
...gentlemen are somewhere in between, somewhere beyond politics, and necessarily, informed debate. For them, throwing Gatsby parties is simply what socialites do, just a bit of fun. There is no significance beyond this, no ironic wink, no nostalgic paean. The party must not be interrupted by the inconvenience of thought. To ask of ideas is thus to presume reflection where none existed. (A Fly Club member declined to comment, citing club policy not to talk to the press...