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...mildly, things were going well for Harvard's Senior Lecturer on English, Richard C. Marius, in early July...
...Marius, who helped Vice President Al Gore '69 write at least two speeches in the past, had accepted an offer to do the job full time...
...Marius, 62, got a year-long leave of absence approved by Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles; he'd rented out his Belmont house; and he'd even started packing. Everything was in place for the bowtie-wearing former Expository Writing director to be Gore's new chief speech writer...
Then, on July 9, everything changed. Marius received a message in an early morning telephone call from Gore's communications director, Lorraine Voles...
...Marius joins the company of notable Jewish intellects, best represented by Hannah Arendt, who enrage the entrenched leaders of Jewish political orthodoxy by pointing out their most dangerous failures to conduct themselves as decent citizens of the world. All Jews are well served by these honest moral criticisms of our leaders, and Peretz would do well as a member of the Harvard faculty, and as a Jew, to broaden his moral vision and admit that when a Jew tortures, when a Jew abducts a citizen from his or her home, when a Jew serves his state through terror, that...