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...life-threatening cancer truly be when you've already walked the length and breadth of the Valley of the Shadow? Kennedy was born into wealth, nursed on power and indulged in every appetite--but the one luxury denied him was the illusion of immortality. After his brothers John and Robert were assassinated in 1963 and 1968, a suffocating sense of doom settled over him, and many years passed before he realized that his life story would have all its pages...
...back story: In June 2002, the singer born Robert Sylvester Kelly was arrested at a rented Florida home and charged with 21 counts of child pornography. Seven of the charges were eventually dropped. Kelly swiftly denied ever having sex with a minor. The case dragged on: one time, because presiding judge Vincent M. Gaughan broke several bones while climbing a ladder; another time, because Kelly needed an appendectomy. Last December, the singer failed to make a scheduled court appearance after Utah authorities stopped his speeding tour bus. All the while, Kelly made millions with various projects - including 2005's acclaimed...
Heady words, indeed. Yet what looked like a transformation turned out to be a fluke - or so argues Robert Kagan, in the wryly titled The Return of History and the End of Dreams. Like Fukuyama, Kagan served in the U.S. State Department (as a speech writer for Secretary of State George Shultz); he now lives in Brussels and is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Best known for the 2003 success Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order, Kagan recently made news as a major influence behind John McCain's most...
...pilfering, serving as the next artistic director for the Harvard-affiliated A.R.T., the University announced Friday afternoon. The announcement comes after a protracted search that began over a year ago, after the theater’s board of directors decided not to renew the contract of then-director Robert Woodruff, whom some criticized for the theatre’s recent financial difficulties, the Boston Globe reported. Those in the Harvard theater community and beyond said they were confident that Paulus can take the A.R.T. in an exciting and successful new direction. English professor Stephen J. Greenblatt, a member...
...three-day tour of Florida starting Wednesday. State Representative Dan Gelber, Florida's House Minority Leader and an Obama backer, acknowledges Obama "hasn't been here," but he argues that his absence "is only going to enhance his stature. People want to see him, hear him." U.S. Representative Robert Wexler, a Florida Democrat who co-chairs Obama's state campaign, believes the Senator will get a warmer welcome than expected: "He's extremely appealing to independent voters and disaffected Republicans. This week really begins his general election campaign in terms of reaching out to them...