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...Remember Mr. March, from Louisa May Alcott's Little Women? Probably not, since he spends most of the book offstage, preaching to Union troops in the Civil War. In March, which won the Pulitzer Prize, Brooks liberates him from obscurity and follows him as he wanders a country divided by racism and blasted by atrocity. March could easily have come off as a preachy pill, but Brooks plays him as a paradox--an intellectual buffeted by passion, a man of faith bedeviled by doubt. He is constantly confronted with moral dilemmas that he can only bluff his way through...
...most trusted couriers, an aide tasked with relaying messages from the commander to militants in the field. What al-Zarqawi could not have known was that U.S. and Jordanian intelligence officials had been tracking the movements of Abdul-Rahman and the courier--whom Jordanian intelligence refers to as Mr. X--for weeks. Fewer than half a dozen members of a U.S. reconnaissance and surveillance team from Delta Force hid in a grove of date and palm trees, watching the building. After years of hunting, they finally had the prey in their sights...
...Crimson in February that Summers’ resignation was a “disgrace.”“My estate plan had bequeathed several million dollars to Harvard,” he wrote. “Based upon what the faculty of Harvard has done to Mr. Summers, I have removed Harvard as a beneficiary of my estate. I am recommending the same to other friends and associates.”“So the radical feminists and PC police win, and Harvard and its students lose,” he added. Similarly, Richard A. Holt...
...Most of those e-mails consisted of glowing recommendations of how great a person Kuhls was and how fun he was to hang around with. If I only knew how cool he was, they continued, I never would have called him out like that. And so I apologize to Mr. Kuhls. Your argument was idiotic. But some people think you’re really swell...
...denounce the report and terminate the study, among other demands.When asked whether Bok supported his report, Klitgaard responds, “He was fine.” Bok defended his motives in a letter to The Crimson in 1980 that he “did not ask Mr. Klitgaard to investigate the abilities or performance of particular groups of students—either by sex, race, or religion.” But he says that the poor performance of African Americans is still an issue. “I still support affirmative action as strongly as ever...