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...surge worked in Iraq is that it first brought an end to violence in Baghdad neighborhoods. Then American soldiers kept watch while the Iraqis themselves nourished their own peace. America has an enormous advantage in the Arab world: the moderates vastly outnumber the fanatics. On their own, these moderates haven't had the power or influence to change the hearts and minds of the whole population, however. The guns on both sides have been too loud...
...them was about a classmate of mine who was the person we thought would be President of the United States. He committed suicide. That led to a book about my father, since my father crept into the first book. Sometimes the memoir is painful to write, but then, I haven't written the sort of memoir that seems to be the style in the U.S. now, which I often characterize as an "atrocity arms-race." With the one about my father, I kept wondering why I was doing this. My father, for most of his working life, was a grocer...
Many people outside of New Haven were surprised when Bulldogs coach Jack Siedlecki stepped down just a few days after Yale’s 10-0 loss in this year’s edition of The Game. Siedlecki was 70-49 as coach of the Bulldogs, including 23-7 over the last two years. He won two Ivy titles, in 1999 and 2006, and has a better winning percentage than half the other coaches in the Ancient Eight...
...what does Yale expect to gain by replacing Siedlecki? The question looms larger when you consider that Siedlecki took over a program in terrible shape in 1997. That season, his first year in New Haven, the Bulldogs went 1-9, undermanned and unprepared after the last unsuccessful years of Carm Cozza, the closest thing Yale has to Bear Bryant. Two years later, Siedlecki led the Bulldogs to a win over Harvard that locked up an Ivy title and a 9-1 season. In other words, Siedlecki restored the luster to a program that was sorely lacking, taking it about...
...mall, she's not on the Internet, she's not texting her friends," Gentine says of the time her teenager spends cleaning stables and teaching young Brownies about horses, riding and safety. Camp Daisy is a hilly, wooded haven in eastern Kansas, not far from Topeka, where the Flint Hills meet the westward-sweeping tallgrass. It's named after Juliette "Daisy" Low, who founded Girl Scouts...