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...policy in Afghanistan and Iraq, which uses essentially imperialist means to defeat fascist regimes and rebuild nations ravaged by them? Orwell was not a pacifist. He had lived long enough among the poor in Britain and France to understand the inequities of the liberal democracies, but he had a splendid contempt for those unwilling to defend them against a greater evil. If he believed that rogue states or radical Islamic terrorists had the means and motive to threaten Western lives and liberties, he would surely have supported the use of armed force to eradicate the danger...
...curtain rises on the twilight of the boyhood idols: in October 2001. Williams, "the Splendid Splinter," was on his deathbed in Florida. Pesky and DiMaggio, both in their 80s, embarked on a 1,300-mile car trip to visit him. Halberstam braids together the story of their road trip--that other great American pastime--with an account of their bittersweet seasons as Red Sox. Though they played as a foursome from 1942 to 1951, minus a few years for World War II, they never won a World Series, and in 1949 they lost the pennant to the New York Yankees...
...engendered and to tread more cautiously in the future. And to help insure an excellent few final weeks for the Class of 2003—and all subsequent seniors—Harvard should provide additional funds and whatever institutional support is necessary for successful events. Senior spring should be splendid. We only graduate from college once...
...After war broke out, a perceptible gloom descended on the ship, so the master ordered a party, a barbecue on the portside deck. Victor outdid himself, orchestrating a splendid, meaty feast with all the fixings. He consulted me, as the ship's temporary resident Texan, for advice about making barbecue sauce; in the end, he stretched it with leftover watermelon. (Strange, but perfectly good form: as any Texan will tell you, you can throw whatever you like into a barbecue sauce...
...Khrushchev, unlike his mentor, ultimately lined up more on the side of life than on the side of death. The fascination of William Taubman's splendid new biography, Khrushchev, the Man and His Era (Norton; 876 pages), lies in tracking the abundantly human struggle in the man between his native humanity and the temptations of power and glamour. Early on, Stalin took a shine to young Khrushchev (some thought because Khrushchev was even shorter than Stalin). Between 1929 and 1938--the most lethal years of Stalinism, starting with the enforced collectivization that left some 10 million kulaks dead, and running...