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...ROBERT DALLEK History professor, Boston University Bush is in a situation where you have the whiff of Vietnam and the smell of Watergate, and there are few examples of Presidents who got into trouble this deep and worked out of it. Reagan ran into a firestorm over Iran-contra, and he was rescued by his relationship with Gorbachev and dealing with the Soviet Union. For Bush, the Iraq war is a burden he won't be able to shake until he can end the conflict. All the rhetoric about democracy, the Iraqi constitution--I think the public is skeptical since...
When the slot fits the volunteer perfectly, the experience may even help answer the eternal question: What do I do with the rest of my life? Robert Kinney, 58, head of the Federal Public Defender's Office in Las Cruces, N.M., may have found his answer when he agreed to a stint for the International Senior Lawyers Project, which uses experienced attorneys to promote the rule of law around the world. After Kinney spent three months (pro bono, but with expenses paid) setting up Bulgaria's first public defender's office and a month in Mongolia on a similar mission...
DIED. RICHARD SMALLEY, 62, nanotechnology pioneer who shared a Nobel Prize with fellow chemists Robert Curl and Sir Harold Kroto for discovering a highly stable, soccer-ball-shaped carbon molecule, a cylindrical version of which--100,000 times thinner than a human hair--can conduct electricity; of cancer; in Houston. The playful professor--among the honors listed on his curriculum vitae is Rice University Homecoming Queen--dubbed the molecule buckminsterfullerene because it resembled the geodesic domes of architect Buckminster Fuller...
...DIED. ROBERT JOHNSTON, 77, archaeologist whose work in digitally restoring and decoding manuscripts that had faded or blackened over time resulted in new glimpses into such texts as the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Papyrus documents, which chronicled daily life in ancient Egypt; in Brighton...
...air—on a three-yard run set up by an interception from sophomore cornerback Steven Williams, his second of the afternoon. The pick, one of three on the day by the Crimson defense, was aided by some relentless defensive pressure. Much of it came from linebacker Robert Balkema, who had 13 total tackles—10 solo—in addition to three of Harvard’s eight total sacks.“A lot of times we were sending more guys than they could block, and the D-line was eating up blocks...