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...other literary organizations in a coup of writers awarding other writers. Nelson Algren won in the fiction category for his tragic American hero story, The Man with the Golden Arm, William Carlos Williams in the poetry category for his work Paterson: Book III and Selected Poems, and Dr. Ralph Rusk in the nonfiction category for The Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson. The New York Times noted the following day that "of the principal prize winners only one, Mr. Algren, had been on the best-seller lists" and all three "shared the common lot of being in part hard to read...
...primacy of the Secretary of State is crucial. Since the office of Secretary of Defense was created after World War II, there have been only two who were more powerful than their counterpart at State: Robert McNamara over Dean Rusk in the 1960s and Donald Rumsfeld over Colin Powell in George W. Bush's first term. McNamara and Rumsfeld presided over the wars in Vietnam and Iraq. Indeed, the primacy of Rumsfeld and his patron Dick Cheney has created a deep wound. Their constant undermining of the U.S. intelligence community, the putdowns of "old Europe," their impatience with U.N. inspectors...
...informed Dean Rusk, the Secretary of State, of the President's decision. He immediately approached the Soviets, seeking to initiate negotiation of an ABM treaty. They refused to participate even in preliminary discussions of such an agreement...
...Many have begun to note that talking with well-known weirdo Erica M. Patel ’04 is a Vietnam-style quagmire. “Pretty soon I was up to my shoulders in the swamp with no exit strategy,” said Jamal B. Rusk ’04 of a Saturday night encounter with Patel. Rusk was saved only when wingman Paul K. Marlow ’04 boated upriver and terminated the conversation with extreme prejudice?...
...Rusk cited Harvard’s late-game dominance over Portland as proof that the team is performing at a top-10 standard...