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...February 1945, Shapiro, then an American GI, entered the Berga concentration camp outside of Weimar, Germany. But unlike the thousands of U.S. soldiers who marched into Hitler’s death camps later that spring, Shapiro came not as a liberator—but as a captive...
What he has accomplished as president—the biggest expansion of low-income aid since the GI Bill, the Crimson Summer Academy to prepare disadvantaged high school students for college, the greatest investments in science and technology ever, recruiting extraordinary new faculty like Louis Menand and Steven Pinker, expanding study abroad, defending affirmative action, making ours a “Green Campus”—all of that is irrelevant to the one-third of professors (of one out of Harvard’s nine faculties) that voted to kick the bastard when he?...
...imagination and political derring-do. For example, it is hypocritical for Democratic politicians, many of whom had the good fortune of attending private schools, to deny that same opportunity to inner-city youths by dogmatically opposing vouchers. That opposition is at odds with the legacy of the GI Bill and other Democratic efforts to achieve equality in educational opportunities. At the same time, we need to bring America’s investment in preschool and health care for all children into line with those of Canada and Europe. The Democratic Leadership Council’s fears of being labeled liberal...
...consistency of a sausage, a distinct salty flavor, and is rumored to be made of fish. (Just don't ask what part-explanations from Koreans range from "the fishy part" to a blunt "I don't know.") Another favorite, and one of less obscure provenance, is duk bok gi-rice noodles as thick as cigars, smothered in red pepper paste...
...carousing. These roving canteens usually serve tak go chi, or chicken skewers, the staple stomach-liner for Seoul's legions of soju-imbibing salarymen. More adventurous eaters, meanwhile, will want to keep an eye out for pig intestines stuffed with glass noodles; octopus tentacles; and the infamous bon dae gi-boiled silkworm larvae. To the uninitiated gourmand, a simmering bucket of larvae might look-and smell-distinctly less than alluring, but there's no better way to get a quick taste of everyday life on the streets of Seoul...