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...first debate of the 2008 presidential campaign, Senator John McCain attacked then-Senator Barack Obama’s foreign policy platform of opening dialogue with America’s geopolitical adversaries. “Senator Obama,” he accused, “twice said in debates he would sit down with Ahmadinejad, Chavez, and Raul Castro without precondition.” Senator Obama emerged from this debate—and the entire campaign—victorious. But aside from the immediate political ramifications, McCain’s remark succeeded in making one thing clear: American policy toward Cuba...
...time Pulitzer Prize winner John H. Updike ’54, who showed early signs of his writing prowess while walking the halls of Harvard’s English department, died yesterday of lung cancer...
...said to them, ‘Let me just tell you something: if you don’t let John Updike into the Signet Society, you’re going to regret it for the rest of your lives,’” Maccoby said yesterday...
...said that this whole Lampoon was worthless except for one person, and that was John Updike,” he said, recalling a review of the humor magazine that he penned...
...John certainly wasn’t a recluse,” said former Lampoon writer Eric B. Wentworth ’54, “but he wasn’t a highly gregarious guy.” He didn’t have time to devote to politics or parties, according to Wentworth, who lived in Lowell House with Updike...