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...work. At the time, I researched the rationale for the procedure. Other than the rare medical need, I found no rational reason to inflict unnecessary pain on one's child. To circumcise is to allow antiquated cultural mores and parental expectations to dictate one's life. David A. Dorwart, MANSFIELD, CONN...
...appointed as a fellow of the British Academy in 2000.After earning his Ph.D., Beer earned a Bronze Star fighting with the U.S. Army in Normandy. During his time at Oxford in the 1930s, he travelled to Germany, where he saw Hitlerism first hand, according to Government professor Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, another of Beer’s former students. “He wanted to know how Germany could have fallen so far to embrace these vicious totalitarian ideas,” Mansfield said. “His courses were often directed to that subject...
...Baucus succeeds in navigating health-care reform through Congress, he may have another Montanan to thank for showing him how. Baucus' office suite in the Hart Senate Office Building is a veritable shrine to the longtime Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield, who guided the difficult passage of civil rights laws and Medicare in the 1960s. Mansfield counseled Baucus when the younger man started exploring a career in politics. Then a lawyer at the Securities and Exchange Commission, Baucus wasn't even sure whether he was a Democrat or a Republican. As Baucus planned his move back home to Montana...
...Douthat. The columnist whom he will replace, Mr. Kristol, has ancestral ties to the luminaries in the American conservative tradition. His father, Irving Kristol, chartered the school of thought known as “neoconservatism,” and he studied for his doctorate under Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr., ’53, conservativism’s elder statesman and principal brain trust. Despite these credentials, Mr. Kristol’s short run on the Times’s editorial page had yielded little more than uninspired boilerplate. With Mr. Douthat taking his stead, the Times will now feature...
Favorite childhood activity: Skiing Mt. Mansfield...