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...propaganda triumph for Hizballah was undeniable. The militia had stared down the strongest army in the Middle East. Israel's departure sparked a nationwide celebration in Lebanon. Hizballah was the party's hero. "A historic victory," said Lebanese President Emile Lahoud, "which we hope marks the beginning of a new era of stability." As costly as the war was to Israel, it was much more painful to the Lebanese. Since the Security Zone was created in 1985, more than a thousand Lebanese have died in the bloodshed...
...Saint Augustine is a permanent concern of mine," says Wills. "He has been my hero and favorite writer and thinker since college. I had been looking for the opportunity to write a short life." Gordon recalls Atlas' phone call asking her if she'd be interested in contributing a Penguin Lives volume: "It was as if a lightning bolt hit me. I said, 'Yes, I'd like to do Joan of Arc.' I've been really fascinated by her since I was a little girl." Although she was teaching at Barnard College and working on a novel, she does...
...drop the zero and get with the hero...
...large, good-natured, hardworking man whose competitive heart transcended even his impressive baseball stats. More than his great contemporaries Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams, it was, a teammate says, Hank Greenberg you wanted at bat in the clutch. He was also, of course, the first great Jewish sports hero, at a time when anti-Semitism was open and virulent, and he carried that burden with exemplary grace too. His bat spoke for his people, and many boys of summer, now grown old, return that favor in this documentary's fond recollections. Sharing its subject's virtues, it is a lovely...
...projections. I have been rereading Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s "A Thousand Days," which comprises more than a thousand pages about the Kennedy White House, written in the year after JFK's assassination. In his grief, Schlesinger portrayed Kennedy as saint and martyr: "He was a Harvard man, a naval hero, an Irishman, a politician, a bon vivant, a man of unusual intelligence, charm, wit and ambition, 'debonair and brilliant and brave,' but his deeper meaning was still in process of crystallization." In recent decades, a more thorough and honest parsing of Kennedy has edited a lot of the hagiology...