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...Lowboy” is William Heller, a 16-year-old paranoid schizophrenic who goes off his meds and goes on a manic journey through the New York City subway system. The contemporary subject-matter is a departure for Wray, whose last two novels have taken place in pre-war Austria and the antebellum South. He told New York Magazine that the more palatable setting pick “had something to do with wanting to survive as a writer. Sooner or later it would be nice if I could make my publisher some money.” It?...
...fairly common knowledge by now that pre-war statements made by top officials in the Bush Administration about Iraq were exaggerated or just plain wrong, based as they were on old or faulty intelligence. In that respect, the final part of Phase II of the Senate Intelligence Committee's Report on Prewar Iraq Intelligence doesn't break any new ground. What it does do, however, is try to make the case that President Bush and his advisers deliberately disregarded conflicting intel and misled Americans on the severity of the Iraqi threat...
...fitness and education; even felons have become soldiering material as the armed forces pursues basic recruiting targets. The Army is paying huge re-enlistment bonuses in an effort to retain captains, who are quitting at alarming rates. It will take decades of investment to rebuild our military strength to pre-war levels...
...says Morton Keller. “The whole situation was transformed.” HARVARD AT WAR Though pre-war debate galvanized the campus, it was Harvard’s wartime efforts that forever changed the face of the University. Harvard reorganized itself to accommodate the demands of a nation at war. Conant’s promise in an address following Pearl Harbor to employ “all resources of Harvard University” in helping the war effort led to a series of sweeping curricular changes in the winter of 1941, ranging from the creation of courses like...
...Israeli military officials in Tel Aviv say that Hizballah has replenished nearly half of its pre-war stockpiles of short-range missiles and small arms. But Western diplomats in Beirut say these calculations underestimate the weapons flow and that Hizballah has now filled its war chest with over 20,000 short-range missiles-a similar amount to what they had at the start of the conflict, during which the group is believed to have fired over 3,000 rockets at Israel. "The Iranian pipeline through Syria was already working during the war," despite constant Israeli bombing raids on the roads...