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...paid close enough attention to the surroundings in American detention centers. "A big part of the problem has to do with the INS's practice of contracting out to private firms who are in charge of the actual detention," says University of Delaware political science professor Mark Miller, who is an expert on immigration politics. "Some of these firms should not have been awarded contracts, and it took the INS a long time to address the problem...
...while many are frustrated by the agency's myriad shortcomings, some, including Mark Miller, feel it would be a mistake to underestimate the interest within the agency in changing conditions for detainees. "I'd be inclined to take them very seriously" on this issue, Miller says. And while Meissner shoulders a great deal of the blame for recent INS failings, even some of the agency's fiercest critics credit her with focusing attention on the agency's faults and problems - rather than glossing over them, which is what her predecessors tended to do. When she steps down in January, Meissner...
...hospital), then more fun (usually card playing) and more extracurriculars (including, George W. Bush would be surprised to learn, the presidency of the campus Young Republicans). He also added more classes, finishing three years' study in two years. He then took off for law school at Northwestern. James Fox Miller, a classmate who is now a prominent Hollywood, Fla., lawyer, remembers listening to Boies speak in a first-year class. "It was mesmerizing," he says. "The first week of law school, and I come home and say to my wife, 'If everyone here is that smart, I'm in trouble...
...important to be well-liked." It is this mantra which leads Willy to denigrate his neighbors and friends, a trait that he imbues to his children at the expense of pursuing their education and that leads him down the path to self-destruction. The fundamental truth Miller reveals is that the flipside of always trying to be well-liked is that you can never truly understand yourself. It is his son, Biff, who--frustrated by his father's failures--proclaims, "He had the wrong dream. He never knew who he was." It is the futility of Willy's fight that...
...that most powerfully conveys it. "Death of a Salesman" is a 90-page play that one could easily finish on the plane ride home. And the message is significantly more important that chomping on some pretzels and finishing the crossword puzzle in Delta's Sky magazine. I think Arthur Miller would agree that no matter how hard it is, you should first and foremost be true to yourself. I hope Harvard students understand...