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...this compulsively readable, deeply unnerving book, Wright traces the rise of Islamic terrorism from the Egyptian polemicist Sayyid Qutb to the spread of the Muslim Brotherhood to Osama bin Laden. Enter John O'Neill, the FBI counterterrorism chief who connected the dots of al-Qaeda's plot and tried in vain to warn his bosses right up to the day he died--Sept...
...Harvard shows—some already on their fourth or fifth appearance on a runway—and amateur designers are making a career designing for shows throughout the year. Karl, Marc, move aside. The producers of Haute’s show were Kristen D. O’Neill ’07 and Abigail M. Baird ’08, both of the fashion-oriented Harvard Vestis Council. Baird’s main inspiration for the show was the Montreal-based acrobatic powerhouse, Cirque du Soleil. “The different color schemes” of the show?...
Speaker of the House is one of the most treacherous jobs in Washington. Tip O'Neill was the last one to leave the big chair voluntarily, nearly 20 years ago. The four who have followed him have been ousted. Pelosi may have taken a different path to power than her predecessors--she was 47 and had raised five children before she ran for office the first time--but by rising rapidly in an institution where getting ahead has always meant waiting in line for your turn, she ensured that she would have a large target on her back...
Nancy Pelosi showed us something important about herself this week. If Tip O'Neill thought that all politics was local, Pelosi's view is that it's personal. But what may have more significance in the long run is what her caucus showed her - that, unlike the Republicans they are replacing, they will not march in lockstep at every dictate from their leaders. And if there is any good news for the Democrats from the entire episode, that...
...Modern politics have been hard on House Speakers. O'Neill was the last one to give up the office under circumstances of his choosing; all four since him have been ousted from it, under one set of circumstances or another. If Pelosi is to avoid that fate, she must learn how to control the impulses and instincts that those around her say define her character. She will have to broaden her circle, trust her colleagues and take to heart the words of the man who managed to hold the job longer than anyone else in history. "You cannot...