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...first step in demonstrating America’s commitment to the world. It would show an America seeking a more well-reasoned approach to foreign policy: a president who took the fascist connotations of “Homeland Security” seriously would not stand for the legalist parsing prevalent in the so-called “torture memos.” Renaming one government department will hardly be the toughest decision faced by our next president. Rather, that individual’s most crucial task will be to stake out a position for America in the 21st century world...
...pension from the Crown. Randall ends his sad, striking account by noting that father and son had only one more tepid meeting, in 1785, although Benjamin lived five years more. The collision, Randall theorizes, was not merely temperamental but genetic. Philosophically, Benjamin the pragmatist and William the stiff-necked legalist could never meet on common ground. More important, both men shared "the single-minded Franklin drive to prevail no matter what the cost." The cost was prohibitive. Perhaps it is just as well that Benjamin is not beside George Washington and Abraham Lincoln on the slopes of Mount Rushmore, after...
...also bestowed degrees on three well-known American academics, including zoologist Ernst Mayr, historian John M. Blum '43, and sociologist Robert Merton; and two British scholars, economist Joan V. Robinson and legalist Herbert L.A. Hart...
Herbert L.A. Hart, legalist and former professor of jurisprudence at Oxford University--Doctor of Laws...
...East envoy, Robert Strauss, last week. "It's a dramatic change in their relationship, and we hope to keep developing that good chemistry." Strauss was speaking of that odd couple of the Middle East, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, the mercurial visionary, and Israeli Premier Menachem Begin, the Talmudic legalist. Despite the glaringly obvious disparity in their temperaments, the awkward relationship between the two leaders that was so apparent at Camp David a year ago continues to grow into a sense of mutual respect and even affection...