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...international institutions it effectively runs (the IMF, for example) always confuse America's own interests with what's good for everyone. This is true no matter who is in power, Mahbubani says. Indeed, the architects of the U.S. response to the Asian financial crisis were then Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin?now practically worshipped in the U.S. as the man behind the Clinton boom years?and Larry Summers, who succeeded Rubin as Treasury Secretary. Devout Bushies they are not, but neither saw the disconnect that to many Thais seemed utterly obvious after the fact: between what was good for America...
Today, Cabot traces the roots of his life at Harvard all the way back to kindergarten. Growing up in Dover, Mass., where he continued to live for much of his life, he befriended Robert Leeson, Jr. ’55 and Ralph B. Williams ’55, two fellow students at the Charles River School. The three friends eventually went their separate ways—only to be reunited, to their surprise, as Harvard freshmen under the roof of Straus Hall...
...government concentrator, he cites Professor Robert G. McCloskey’s American Constitutional History and Law course as an important step toward pursuing a degree at Harvard Law School (HLS). He also remembers taking courses with then-teaching fellows Samuel Huntington, Henry Kissinger, and Zbigniew Brzezinski...
Already a master at creating hilarious stories about alienated weirdos, most famously in Ghost World, Clowes has more recently been exploring the formal properties of graphical storytelling. Inspired by the overlapping style of director Robert Altman, Ice Haven weaves more than 30 short strips into one cohesive portrait of a strange suburban town shaken by the disappearance of an odd little boy. Bruisingly satiric and brilliantly designed, Ice Haven will have you gleefully reading it two or three times in a row to unlock its complex interconnections...
...Senate Watergate committee investigator and onetime Woodward collaborator on The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court, thinks Deep Throat's role was somewhat distorted by the high drama of shadowy garage encounters with Woodward that were featured in the book's movie version, in which the journalist is played by Robert Redford. Says Armstrong: "Bob gave Redford some s___ once about pulling Deep Throat out of context." Armstrong also notes that Woodward and Bernstein had lots of equally important sources for their stories. "Before this week," he says, "there were at least 10 people in Washington who would have passed polygraphs...