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Scott Turow subtitles his autobiographical book A Lawyer’s Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty, but the interest comes less from his position as lawyer as from his second career: best-selling author of such thrillers as Presumed Innocent, Reversible Errors and his memoir of his years at Harvard Law School. Here, he mines his experience as a lawyer to explicate how and why his views on the death penalty have changed over the years, and why we should agree with him. Expect plenty of high-voltage arguments. 6 p.m, Ames Courtroom, Austin Hall, 1515 Mass...
...preferred message. So Cohen had Army General Hugh Shelton, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, telephone Clark with a tart midwar message: "The Secretary of Defense asked me to give you some verbatim guidance, so here it is: 'Get your f______ face off the TV,'" Clark wrote in his 2001 memoir. (Cohen declined to discuss Clark...
...Bill and I debated whether we should attend a ceremony in Tiananmen Square, where Chinese authorities had used tanks to forcibly suppress pro-democracy demonstrations in 1989." HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, New York Senator and former First Lady, in a passage from her memoir Living History that was expunged?along with several others?from the Chinese edition...
Said was awarded a number of prizes for his work, including Sultan Owais Prize (the premier literary prize of the Arab world), the Spinoza prize and the New Yorker Book Award for Non-Fiction for his 1999 memoir Out of Place. That same year, he was named president of the Modern Languages Association...
...from terrorism to aids, from creeping protectionism to the collapse of failed states. Why not raise our sights above the headlines and consider a grander bargain? Think about the golden age of American diplomacy in the 1940s that was described so poignantly in Secretary of State Dean Acheson's memoir, Present at the Creation. The deal was as breathtaking as it was simple: instead of going back to the old balance-of-power politics, the U.S. built a cooperative international order that promoted American interests by serving those of others. Leadership was not grabbed, but earned. And the Europeans were...