Word: polks
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When men as important as former Senator George S. McGovern and historian William R. Polk ’51 write a book entitled, “Out of Iraq: A Practical Plan for Withdrawal Now,” people tend to take notice. It’s too bad if anyone did here...
...recitation of historical British and American blunders in the Middle East, followed by an excoriation of the Bush administration’s conduct in the present war. “In previous chapters we have discussed why America must get out of Iraq,” McGovern and Polk write on page 91 of their 127-page book. “Here we will lay out a plan to show how our exit might be accomplished.” Someone apparently forgot to tell them the only people who read a book by George McGovern entitled...
...however, her self-described Puritanism is challenged when her friend, the bombastic Duchess of Berwick, played by Jen C. Sullivan ’09, tells her about what all of the upper crust has been discussing for months: the large sums of money that Lord Windermere (Brian B. C. Polk ’09) has been paying to Mrs. Erlynne (Allison B. Kline ’09), a woman with a shady past, who long ago lost her place in society. What follows is a series of crises—social, moral and personal—with cynical commentary...
...James K. Polk once said: “Preseason polls are dumb.”Well, not really. Our 11th president’s famous slogan was “Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!” But I’m saying it now: preseason polls are dumb.How can a team be properly evaluated before it has played a down? If games were played on paper, the Yankees would have swept the Tigers, and if players’ values were so easily projected from their vitals, Darius Miles would be an All-Star. Or an Oscar winner...
...diminutive, French-born war photographer whose raw, intimate glimpses of atrocities during the Vietnam War--among them Corpsman in Anguish, a well-known 1967 photo of a Navy corpsman hunched over his friend's dead body--appeared in LIFE, Look and other publications and won her the prestigious George Polk Award; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif...