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...wonderful fundraiser.” “It’s hard if you have a moral commitment to social justice to hear Paul speak and not want to make some sort of contribution,” he said. Farmer, also a winner of the MacArthur ‘genius’ award, joins the ranks of Wendy Kopp, who founded Teach For America as a senior at Princeton and who won the two-year-old award last February. “Dr. Paul Farmer, is a hero here,” said Pete DeLisle, director of Austin College?...
...that point, Truman faced a choice. His commander on the ground, General Douglas MacArthur, demanded victory, which meant full-scale war with Beijing. Dropping 30 to 50 atom bombs on Manchuria, he suggested, would do the trick. But Truman refused. He fired MacArthur, refused to bomb China and, in a humiliating reversal, abandoned the dream of a liberated Korea. Instead, the U.S. fought to an unsatisfying draw, with an eventual cease-fire reaffirming the border between North and South. MacArthur denounced the new strategy, and Truman's approval ratings--already damaged by the loss of China--sank below 30%, where...
...Secretary of Defense's dining room is modest, with a couple of inlaid wooden cabinets along the walls, several flags with streamers from various military campaigns, and a bust of Gen. Douglas MacArthur in one corner. The table can seat only 24, which isn't very grand for the man who controls the most powerful military in the world...
...paid $400 apiece over Thanksgiving to attend her weekend seminar at the Doubletree Plaza Hotel outside Seattle, Knight is the conduit for the distant voice of Ramtha, a 35,000-year-old "warrior." (That would make Ramtha a contemporary of Cro-Magnon man, giving new meaning to General MacArthur's statement that old soldiers never die.) According to Knight, Ramtha speaks, or "channels," his wisdom and prophecy through her. Ramtha first spoke to her in 1977, she says, when she was experimenting with crystal pyramids...
DIED. Frank McCarthy, 74, retired U.S. Army brigadier general and film producer who marshaled his military expertise to help create the films Patton (1970) and MacArthur (1977); of lung cancer; in Woodland Hills, Calif. McCarthy served as an aide to Army Chief of Staff General George Marshall during World War II and as an Assistant Secretary of State in the Truman Administration...