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...Recount, the enemy is often Democrats. Former Secretary of State Warren Christopher (John Hurt), elder statesman of Gore's recount effort, is portrayed as a wet noodle, fretting about honorable compromise while Baker goes to the mattresses. Gore's running mate, Joe Lieberman, hands the Bush team a gift by declaring that challenged military ballots should be counted. With friends like these, who needs Karl Rove...
...Palestinian rockets fired from Gaza will inevitably land in a crowded Negev school yard. And they worry that Palestinian suicide bombers will once again explode in the buses and cafčs of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. "We used to think that every year we survived was a miracle, a gift," an Israeli friend confides gloomily, "but now all I think about are the threats ahead...
...chosen to share your gift of writing, what else would you have done? -Michelle Patrick, New York CityWhen I started teaching, I was absolutely thrilled. There's nothing more exciting to me than to read books, to talk about books with students-generation after generation-who bring different things to them. I loved that. I would stay there...
...preface to this new book—which consists of a decade’s worth of his essays that have appeared in such publications as The New Yorker—Samuels informs readers that his story “has something to do with our national gift for self-delusion and for making ourselves up from scratch, which is much the same thing as believing in the future...
...less traveled places, where you can see and experience poverty, helps mitigate misconceptions that people have about these places.”NO EXCUSESWu says her trip had a transformative effect on her life and that she would whole-heartedly recommend traveling to developing countries. The $100 million gift of David Rockefeller ’36 in April, the largest donations ever given to Harvard by an alumnus, will be used in part to fund these international programs.“There’s no excuse for students, especially broad-minded students at Harvard, not to be spending time...