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...Central Command (CENTCOM) is one of the strangest organizations in the U.S. military. It has no troops to call its own, just responsibility for a huge arc of turf, from the Horn of Africa to Pakistan, that is home to some of the world's most dangerous neighborhoods. Franks' job--held in the past by such men as Norman Schwarzkopf and Anthony Zinni--is to meet and befriend the civilian leaders of each of the region's 25 countries in case the U.S. needs to drop in on short notice to clean things up. When that time comes, the general...
Around the Horn...
When I first took up the horn, I liked classical music and classical music only; indeed, the idea of someone, or specifically my entire seventh grade class, who preferred Green Day to the lilting “Swan Lake,” appalled me. Little did I then know that one day the Rolling Stones’ insistent strumming guitars would seem to echo my heartbeat, or that I would find as much poetry in Lou Reed’s tired voice as in a Mahler symphony. Since arriving at Harvard, and I now suppose throughout my life, music...
...song or symphony expresses. But I gladly take the risk, for this precise possibility of getting caught up draws me to music in the first place. I’ve grown up and perhaps away from the little girl who, once upon a time, only wanted to play the horn that sounded like the musical equivalent of hot fudge, but I remember her eagerness to discover and learn from music every time a new band catches my eye. There may be piles on my desk and books on my back, but if you see me walking around campus, chances...
Around The Horn...