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CAPTAIN SCOTT O'GRADY HAD THE grace to blush when America welcomed him home with the kind of publicity once lavished on Douglas MacArthur. O'Grady had eaten grass and ants for six days of adventurous Bosnian discomfort...
What is a hero?Captain Scott O'Gradyhad the grace to blush when America welcomed him home from six days of scavenging in Bosnia with the kind of publicity once lavished upon Douglas MacArthur. Navy pilot John McCain, on the other hand, survived nearly six brutal years in Viet Cong captivity and once spat in the faces of startled Vietnamese dignitaries. McCain, now the senior Senator from Arizona, is one of five notable or notorious Annapolis graduates and Vietnam veterans whose interbraided destinies make up Robert Timberg's "The Nightingale's Song" (Simon & Schuster; 543 pages; $27.50), a story thatTIME...
...months after he disappeared in Chechnya, humanitarian Fred Cuny, known in aid circles as the "Master of Disaster" for his ability to bring relief to war-torn areas, has been awarded a $305,000 "genius grant" by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. "We presume he's alive," says MacArthur spokesman Ted Hearne. "We are holding the award for him until he gets back." Cuny's family cannot even use the money to find its recipient...
Catharine R. Stimpson, director of the fellowsprogram of the MacArthur Foundation and a frequentauthor of essays on higher education in the U.S.,also support Jardine and Suleiman...
...more persuasive. The California Democrat decided to find out for herself just how easy it would be to get a fake green card and driver's license. So she traded her Hermes scarf for some urban camouflage -- in this case, a gabardine pantsuit -- and went shopping in MacArthur Park, a crime-infested mini-mall for phony immigration documents near downtown Los Angeles. Never mind that the patrician politician went trailing a swarm of agents in dark suits; the fake IDs were hers for the asking. "They would have cost anywhere from $10 to $60," she says, "and I could have...