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...followed up with a courtroom-rocking, 50-minute discourse in which he prayed for "the destruction of the United States" and "the destruction of the Jewish people and state," accused his court-appointed attorneys of trying to get him executed and said he wanted to be his own lawyer. Brinkema warned him of the consequences, including the fact that he would not have access to the mountain of classified material that his lawyers, who had got security clearances, would be able to use. She then ordered a mental-competency exam, which concluded that he was capable of making the decision...
...from his class, he asks sarcastically, "Are they spooks?" He means ghosts. But the students are African American, the faculty is spineless and Coleman is soon reprimanded for uttering, however guilelessly, a racial slur. This comes as a shock to Silk, who identifies himself as the son of a Jewish saloonkeeper. Funny, you may think, Anthony Hopkins doesn't look Jewish...
...Exactly 100 years ago, back when F.D.R. was just a 21-year-old Harvard senior and the Red Sox were still capable of winning the World Series, various branches of my family were trading horses in southern Germany and repairing shoes in eastern Poland. And now I, a nice Jewish boy born in Tennessee and raised near Seattle, with not a single connection to the East Coast aristocracy, am here at Harvard, cohabiting and making friends with kids of virtually every imaginable nationality, religion, sexual orientation and political ideology...
Josh W. Goldberg ’05 was excited to learn from his mother that none other than superstar rapper 50 Cent has moved in nextdoor to the Goldberg family home. Apparently, growing up rich and Jewish in tony Farmington, CT earns one much street cred. Declares Goldberg, “Yeah, we’ll see if ‘Fitty’ can party like it was my birthday.” For the record, Goldberg spent his last birthday heaving up sushi in the bathroom at Redline...
...Edward Teller's intense concern with the menace of tyranny traces back to his Hungarian childhood. When Teller was born, in 1908, into a Jewish family with culture and money, citizens of gay, well-fed Budapest could believe that the world was solid, dependable. But Austria-Hungary got into World War I on the losing side, and the seemingly solid world crumbled ... With the nation's life disrupted and anti-Semitism rampant, Teller's father dinned into his son two grim lessons: 1) he would have to emigrate to some more favorable country when he grew...