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Wesley Clark was top of his class at West Point, a Rhodes scholar, a decorated four-star general and the man who humbled Slobodan Milosevic when Clark was Supreme Allied Commander in Europe. But if he made any impression at all on many Americans, it happened after he retired and found stardom on CNN as one of the smoothest and most antiwar of the corps of generals turned commentators during the Iraq war. So maybe it was not such a surprise that just 1 1/2 hours after Clark made another career leap last week, he could be found...
While Clark declined to respond directly to Cisneros, he told TIME, "People are entitled to their own opinions. The Army and the armed forces are very competitive institutions." An erstwhile colleague comments, "It doesn't mean a lot to be a Rhodes scholar in the Army, but it helps your career when the President is one." In fact, after Clark had run the Southern Command for only 12 months, Clinton nominated him to be NATO commander. That too raised Pentagon eyebrows, given that Clark had no significant command experience in that theater either...
...DIED. Edward Said, 67, Columbia University professor, literary critic and prominent advocate for Palestinian independence; in New York City. A fierce critic of Israel and American Middle East policy, the Jerusalem-born author and scholar advocated a single, binational state for "dispossessed" Palestinians. Though he generally repudiated terrorism, he drew ire for his refusal to condemn specific violent acts by Palestinians. Still, the author of Orientalism, which argued that Western writers had demeaned Arabs and Asians with stereotyping, lived most of his life in the U.S., married a Quaker and for a time wrote music reviews for the Nation, acknowledging...
Each year The Best American Essays series collects some of the year’s most provocative writing under the supervision of such illustrious editors as Cynthia Ozick and Susan Sontag. This year, Anne Fadiman, editor of Phi Beta Kappa’s literary and intellectual quarterly The American Scholar, has put together a diverse selection of works on such subjects as driving lessons and animal rights. The Harvard Bookstore sponsors an event featuring Fadiman and a selection of the authors discussing the series and their respective works. 6 p.m. Free. First Parish Church, 3 Church Street...
...before the war cautioned that the goodwill of Iraqis would be fleeting and violent nationalism rife--that things, in short, could quickly become messy. "There were a lot of people in the Army who were aware of what the occupation might require," says Conrad Crane, an Army War College scholar who co-wrote both reports on Iraq's postwar challenges. "That message didn't seem to get to Central Command or the Defense Secretary's staff." --By Unmesh Kher. Reported by Mark Thompson and Douglas Waller/Washington and Vivienne Walt/Baghdad