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...travel-agency business. "I asked them to double it to 5,000 kids." He realized during his book tour that remaindered books get destroyed. "I told Harry Evans [his publisher at Random House] to figure a way to get these books to kids." He pulls out a letter from Herman Cain, the head of Godfather's Pizza and the National Restaurant Association, offering to persuade 33,000 restaurants to start school-to-work and welfare-to-work programs. Although some organizers worry about follow-through on these hundreds of commitments, Powell does not. "If I have Herman, I trust Herman...
...probably didn't know Ron Herman, a 20 year-old from the city of Ranaana in Israel. I didn't know him either...
What, if anything, can we possibly learn then from Ron Herman's death? Was Ron's death part of a tragic and needless war or was it for a different reason...
...unable to write anything more about Ron Herman than his name, age, rank and city of residence. Ron died in a war that Israel has never desired but knows that it must fight. To use a Hebrew expression, ain brera--there is no choice. Israel wants peace in Lebanon, but there is no peace being offered...
...texture is rich and believable. Early in his career the President bankrupted the small nation to build an old folks' home at the base of a big mountain. Now, "mountain-viewing" is local slang for dying. That sounds real. And so does the quotation Leithauser slyly invents for Herman Melville, "on his sole North Atlantic whaling voyage" in 1850: Freeland, the great writer deplored, was "a humble acme in the planet's perennial pursuit of utter desolation...