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...vultures are circling to pick over his holdings, with potential bidders ranging from private equity firms to rival newspaper giants like Gannett. In his Roosevelt biography, Black writes that the President's "considerable vanity could never allow that he had been defeated or outsmarted." It's an insight that could well apply to Black himself...
...delivering an intellectually rigorous dismantling of the constitutional arguments for slavery at Cooper Union in New York City. Ever since, politicians have stood on the same podium and given immortality their best shot. It was Howard Dean's turn last week--and his Cooper Union appearance provided an inadvertent insight into the nature of his campaign...
During the question and answer session of a recent Harvard School of Public Health seminar with University President Lawrence H. Summers entitled, “Public Health Crisis in Africa: How May Harvard Help,” one particular exchange provided telling insight into the mind of Harvard’s top policy-maker—and it was not encouraging...
...Storyteller's Daughter, British-born Afghan Saira Shah is unable to deliver as much insight as Seierstad does into the culture of her "lost homeland." Shah's uneven account of her attempts to reconcile the enchanting Afghanistan of her exiled father's tales with her own harrowing encounters relies on clich?d Western stereotypes: the Taliban are evil oppressors, the mujahedin noble warriors. Few of her subjects come across as real?which is precisely what makes Seierstad's nuanced portraits so compelling. While traveling with her romanticized mujahedin, for example, Shah is devastated to learn that they have been selling...
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