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North Korea seems to have taken over the space in America's collective consciousness formerly occupied by the planet Mongo. Created by the brilliant cartoonist Alex Raymond, the distant Mongo, as ruled by the diabolical Ming the Merciless, a jaundiced and slant-eyed despot, perpetually plotted our destruction until Flash Gordon foiled its schemes. Substitute Kim Jong-Il for Ming, and nuclear weapons for invading spaceships, and you have a pretty good approximation of America's poor sense of an extremely closed and apparently hostile other world. How appropriate, then, that another kind of comic would be the most readable...
...that point, some New Yorkers were already wondering whether they had been fools “in the merciless Flames of an Imaginary Plot.” Horsmanden compiled his journal to show them the evidence. And in “New York Burning,” Lepore shows just how shoddy the evidence was that sent 13 slaves to the stake and 17 more to the gallows along with four white co-conspirators...
...Students [on the committee] are really merciless about what kinds of courses students have taken,” Coakley said, adding that “the only thing we don’t look at is extracurriculars...
...sizes here at Harvard, including in student governance, and we are glad that UC President Matthew J. Glazer ’06 no longer has to mix with the riffraff. Hopefully the Yale crew team is still somewhere, lost on Worcester’s Lake Quinsigamond, sparing itself another merciless whooping at the hands of its clear superiors. And if not, haven’t you learned your lesson...
...Radcliffe may have only been a second choice, but, aside from her one unfortunate encounter with a merciless member of the English faculty, Kumin speaks fondly of her years as a student here in Cambridge—one might even say she waxes poetically about her undergraduate experience. She was, as her ill-fated sonnet attests, “wide-eyed,” but not “lonely”; her fellow ’Cliffies joined her atop Cabot Hall at night to recite poetry. She swam competitively. And in 1945, she fell in love...