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Kristol, who died Sept. 18 at 89, once joked that when he had a problem, he started a magazine. The quarterly he co-edited, the Public Interest, subjected the bright new ideas of the Great Society to intense scrutiny--and opened the door for the conservative intellectual revolution of the 1970s that he both led and chronicled. Not least among his accomplishments was his marriage to the equally brilliant historian Gertrude Himmelfarb. A glimpse of the two was a picture of happiness...
...public, Mary, who died Sept. 16 at 72, was known for being charismatic, indomitable and beautiful. A Kentucky native raised amid the blossoming folk-music scene of Greenwich Village, she inspired us to confront the disgrace of racial segregation and injustice, to halt an immoral war in Vietnam and to right much of the historical inequity between men and women. Many of the songs she sang, including "Blowin' in the Wind" and "If I Had a Hammer," became anthems for a decade of change...
Harvard fell 14-25, 22-25, 19-25 in a shutout against Dartmouth in Hanover, N.H., after the Big Green had defeated the Crimson at a home match on Sept. 25. The two-match series provided the teams with an opportunity to rework their play to best suit their opponents, Harvard arrived in Hanover with a different game plan than it had in the teams’ initial meeting...
...first class of eight purely drone pilots graduated at Creech Air Force Base outside Las Vegas Sept. 25, Schwartz hailed them as pioneers in a long-established tradition of military innovators. "When the steamship, the tank and, yes, the aircraft were introduced for military application, institutional disorder resulted," the Air Force's top commander explained, noting that the boosters of these new technologies had been derided as "zealots." Those piloting drones from electronic consoles on the ground, he conceded, have "encountered the same sort of resistance, even in our own Air Force...
...Watch Obama's Sept. 9, 2009, speech to a joint session of Congress...