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...women and children and shooting an Associated Press journalist—an act filmed with the journalist’s own camcorder. These tragedies may have been more frequent in postwar Japan, governed as it were by more permissive rules of engagement and heavy-handed orders from General Douglas MacArthur to secure American dominance of the social, cultural and political scene...
...MacArthur, in his time, was rather lucky that the American public was so squarely behind the war, and that the law of the land gave him the authority to censor the news media as he pleased. Now, with the American populace enjoying the carnival-like violence emanating from a far-off place—and with a slate of Democratic hopefuls egging them on—an otherwise normal postwar reconstruction has turned into a bloody hell...
Peck wasn't just an icon. He was an actor, a smart one. He picked hit properties in a wide variety of genres: romantic comedy (Roman Holiday), action (The Guns of Navarone), horror (The Omen). He was bold in taking roles--Ahab, General MacArthur--that twisted his noble-man image. He assayed his share of misanthropes (including Nazi monster Josef Mengele) and western hombres as craggy as a butte. But Peck will be best remembered as the movies' exemplary father figure, who often, and surprisingly, revealed the pacifism at the heart of heroism...
...Muslims, many of whom feel that the war on terror has prompted unfair scrutiny of their way of life, also question the F.A.W.C. motives. "It's most disturbing," says Aziz Pasha, head of the Union of Muslim Organizations. "Why are we going through this again?" F.A.W.C. chair Judy MacArthur Clark rejects any claim of bias, saying such allegations are "just mischief-making. We're looking at the issue purely from an animal-welfare aspect." She also stresses that the report - the F.A.W.C.'s second in 17 years to call for an end to slaughter without stunning - has been...
After earning his stripes teaching at both Princeton and Brown, Harvard’s math department offered him tenure in 1985—and he accepted. He won the MacArthur Fellowship’s “Genius Grant” a year later. This fall, Kirby appointed him dean of undergraduate education, and Gross acquired a new office on the first-floor corner of University Hall...