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...Ec10: Introduction to capitalism taught by G.O.P. guru Martin "Marty" S. Feldstein '61 and his legion of teaching fellow disciples. Usually the most popular class at Harvard...
...told, who can blame you? The presidential privileges are legion. Sure, Rudenstine got a little winded from all that work. But there's that primo car, complete with chauffeur and "1636" license plate. Classy! And all the ice cream socials and barbecues you can tolerate. And the open invitations to Harvard's Italian "research institute," Villa I Tatti, which just happens to make its own wine. It all looks so easy: Ignore a few undergraduates here, fawn over a few donors there, and call it a day. You figure, "Neil was a provost. I'm a provost...
...orisons." But Owen never learned that he had penned some of the most celebrated verse to come out of World War I: he was killed in action on the Western Front a week before the Armistice. A similar fate met Alan Seeger, an American who joined the French Foreign Legion when the war broke out and was killed in France fighting Germans in 1916--shortly after writing his poem I Have a Rendezvous with Death. The verse begins, "I have a rendezvous with Death/At some disputed barricade" and ends, "And I to my pledged word am true./I shall...
...lowered his newspaper and said, "It sounded like hell." Scott said that was the end of the interview, but many years later she was deeply moved when her father, the town mechanic, died and a thousand people showed up for his funeral. His friends at the local American Legion Post performed the military rites. Their uniforms, she said, were mismatched suits, since in that town formal wardrobes were not a high priority. But she felt lucky to have been raised in their presence and to have shared their sense of patriotism...
...mostly between a rock and a hard place. Law enforcement work has always been a balancing act between the rights of individuals and the good of the public. And when that "public" can transform overnight from a community of quiet suburbanites and small weekly papers into a legion of lawyers and an international press corps, that balancing act becomes considerably more complex...