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...Mohammed Atta and all his boys are dead, so let Sept. 11 die?" he asks. "We can know who was in the conspiracy. They're in their 70s now. Why die with this stain on their hands?" And he adds, "Who knows? Maybe the state will call and say, 'Mr. Wright, we're so sorry your family suffered this grave injustice in Mississippi.'" --Reported by Alice Jackson Baughn/Money, David Thigpen/Chicago and Deirdre van Dyk/New York
...Beating the System,” you reprinted recently. I almost suspect this so-called “Donald Carswell ’50” of being rather one of Us—the Bad Guys—than one of you. If your readers have been following Mr. Carswell’s advice for the last 11 years, then your readers have been going down the tubes. It is time to disillusion...
...Think, Mr. Carswell (wherever you are), think, all of you: Imagine the situation of your grader. (Unless he is of the Wheatstone Bridge-double differential CH3C6H2(NO2)3 set. These people are mere cogs; automata; they simply feel to make sure you have punched the right holes. As they cannot think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want to read...
...remind you, necessarily to people who have locked themselves in Lamont for a week and seminared and outlined and underlined and typed their notes and argued out all of Leibniz’s fallacies with their mothers. They often get A’s too, but as Mr. Carswell points out, this takes too long. There are other ways...
...bittersweet love story of Jack and Jackie, but she finds time to document in exhaustive detail Kennedy's many infidelities--yes, she digs up a few new ones--as well as Jackie's exceptional grasp of tactical flirtation, cutting off Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev mid-lecture by saying, "Oh, Mr. Chairman, don't bore me with statistics." Somewhere in the background, we glimpse Jack's political evolution from the hothead of the Bay of Pigs to the cool hand of the Cuban missile crisis...