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...ambiguity and restless sense of privacy that made Greene one of the defining writers of the past century rendered him a mystery in life, even to himself. Fifteen or so years before his death, perhaps as one of his celebrated pranks, the aging novelist appointed an intrepid Joseph Conrad scholar, Norman Sherry, to be his official biographer. In the 28 years since his appointment, Sherry followed Greene to more than 20 countries, got dysentery in the same mountain village where Greene got dysentery and tracked down almost everyone who knew him. Yet as Sherry brings his massive project...
DIED. JAMES CHACE, 72, prominent scholar and author of books on American diplomacy; of a heart attack; in Paris. As the author of nine books and the editor of influential foreign policy journals, he helped shape political opinions and American foreign policy in the cold war era. His best-known work, Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the American World, was considered a crucial revision of postwar history, correcting the impression that Dean Acheson helped precipitate the cold...
...book inadvertently failed to give proper attribution to a book by Professor Henry Abraham simultaneously (News, “Prof Admits to Misusing Source,” Sept. 27) overstates the seriousness of that allegation and fails to acknowledge Professor Tribe’s deserved reputation as a scholar...
Such an isolated error—emerging from the gloaming after two decades—should not, and will not, tarnish the reputation of America’s leading and most creative constitutional scholar. The country and the legal profession should be as proud and grateful as we are that Professor Tribe continues to work as hard and conscientiously as he has for the past forty years...
...engages in this jihad is concerned not only with perfecting himself, but also with perfecting the world. Just as one must wage jihad to mold oneself into a form with which God would be pleased, one must also wage jihad to mold the world into such a form. Islamic scholar Mahmud Taleqani says that in religious texts, “the term jihad is always attached to the locution ‘fi sabil ilah,’ [in the way of God]. What is the way of God? …Is it toward the heavens?...