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...rash decisions such as selecting Sarah Palin and suspending his campaign. While his supporters call him a maverick, I call him reckless. And as the past eight years have shown, recklessness is not what we need in a President. We need someone with intelligence, composure, discipline and restraint. Robert J. Inlow, Charlottesville...
It’s all in the yeast, G. Robert Tod, Jr., founder of Allagash Brewing Co., said at the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub yesterday as part of its ongoing “Beer School” series. “If you’re not using Belgian yeast strains, you’re not making Belgian-style beers,” said Tod, whose Maine-based microbrewery has made a name crafting superior beers in that exacting European style...
...patience for “scholarly type of smarts.” Instead, he pursued cosmopolitan interests, including movies, arts, and popular culture. Esherick and Crichton would always have dinner together in Lowell House before Crichton would run off to The Crimson to write movie reviews.Former Crimson editorial chair Robert W. Gordon ’63 said Crichton possessed a “bit of knowledge about everything,” displaying his versatility by writing for both editorial and news.“He was a master of all the disciplines,” added Gordon, now a professor...
...chances are said to be about 50-50 that Obama will ask Defense Secretary Robert Gates to remain in his position, at least for the first year of the new Administration. Backers of such a move say the new commander-in-chief could use the continuity Gates would offer, but critics counter that keeping him on could delay Obama's promised U.S. troop pullout from Iraq and fail to signal a clear break from Bush's policy...
...ironies of Fawkes' legacy is that he was a late addition to the infamous "Gunpowder Plot." Born a Protestant in 1570, Fawkes enlisted in the Spanish army in the Netherlands around 1593, shortly after converting to Catholicism. Co-conspirators Robert Catesby, Thomas Winter, Thomas Percy and John Wright enlisted Fawkes as a ringer, reasoning that his military skills - he had participated in the 1595 capture of Calais, France - and his anonymity as a foreign soldier made him an ideal candidate to help execute their plan...