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...emphasis should—but seldom does—lie not on the mistake itself, but on what comes after the mistake...
...Status anxiety is nothing new in America. Alexis de Tocqueville first remarked that the flipside of America’s democratic spirit is class anxiety. Due to the absence of aristocratic titles or estates, families are seldom blessed with status for more than a few generations. One group is always rising, while another is fading. Harvard and schools like it are at the epicenter of these social shifts. Such universities no longer educate the nation’s elite; now they make the nation’s elite...
...Hovering over this entire process was the figure-seldom acknowledged, almost never mentioned-of Ahmed Chalabi. Time and again, during the months leading up to the invasion and for months thereafter, the representatives of the vice president and Pentagon officials would introduce ideas that were thinly veiled efforts to put Chalabi in charge of post-invasion Iraq. Immediately before the invasion, the effort took the form of a proposal, put forward insistently and repeatedly, to form an Iraqi "government in exile," comprised of the exiles and the Kurdish leaders. These exiles would then be installed as a new government once...
...America, aboard one of three ships that would land at Jamestown, one passenger seemed to grate on the rest like a splintered oar. He was a stocky, sawed-off stub of a man; a seasoned war fighter with a valiant past he seldom tired of highlighting; an unconscionable braggart of modest means who resented the blue bloods among the group; a bigmouthed know-it-all with a sanctimonious air and little or no regard for decorum. His name was John Smith...
...class—a luxury, considering he didn’t set foot into a classroom during the three weeks of the presidential campaign—Sundquist proffers his ID at the entrance to Annenberg Hall. From there, the count is on. Over an hour-long meal, five minutes seldom pass without Sundquist being recognized and engaged in conversation.According to Troy C. Murrell ’09, Sundquist’s suitemate, the delay faced in the vice president’s own Mather House dining hall is even more pronounced.“On our way it?...