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...brings out Freddie's nascent personality. Their relationship forms the heart of Kings in Disguise, turning the book into an unusual buddies-on-the-road story. Over the course of the story Vance keeps the relationship finely tuned by changing its nature from the beginning - Freddie needs a mentor and Sam needs a purpose in his life - through the end, as Sam becomes increasingly ill from being on the road. The plausibility of this bond has as much to do with the artist Dan Burr's sensitive and realistic portrayal of the characters as much as Vance's sharp writing...
...fate may be as much in the hands of the Vice President as in the President's. Although Rumsfeld is more responsible than any other man for the rise of Dick Cheney during the 1970s, their roles have since reversed, and now the protégé is protecting the mentor. Between the two of them, Cheney and Rumsfeld have run the Pentagon for almost 12 of the last 32 years. It's the federal agency each knows best, and neither man has any patience for insubordination from men and women in uniform. Cheney began his four-year stint as Defense Secretary...
...describing the death of his dear friend and mentor Heinz Pagels on a hiking trip, Lloyd sees information as the ultimate connection between all of us: “Heinz’s body and brain are gone...But we have not entirely lost him. While he lived, Heinz programmed his own piece of the universe. The resulting computation unfolds in us and around us...Heinz’s piece of the universal computation goes...
...Ethnic Groups Reach Beyond Blood Ties” (News, Mar. 21). That students are expressing interest—and are welcomed—in identity groups that are not (at first glance) their own, displays admirable open-mindedness, curiosity, and leadership. From my own personal experience, as a Radcliffe Mentor in the Radcliffe Mentorship Program (once an all-female endeavor), I have been thrilled to see male undergraduates lining up to be mentored by Radcliffe graduates. Indeed, Harvard extracurriculars are proof that students are willing to leap across boundaries...
...Less surprising was Benedict?s appointment of John Paul?s long-time personal secretary, Stanislaw Dziwisz, to the Archbishop post of Krakow that Wojtyla held before becoming Pope. Dziwisz, who gets his red hat just eight days shy of the anniversary of his mentor?s death, is also looking forward to a visit from Benedict in Poland in late May. The new Pope, known as a true believer in set rules, surprised some last spring by skipping the usual waiting period to put John Paul on the fast-track to sainthood. Dziwsz is hoping that on his Polish trip Benedict...