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...then pointed to his wife Marilyn, who stood in the JFK Jr. Forum audience, and—as audience members applauded approvingly—said marrying her was the “best decision I ever made...
...cockily assuming that the final out had been recorded, Meltzer trod off the field while his teammates stood confused at their positions...
...elections in Spain dramatically changed the political mood in Poland. Everybody who has been following the past year's political turmoil started to feel deeply uneasy when the Spanish election results were announced. Poles really hoped that Poland and Spain could be political allies, especially since we stood together and took part in the Iraq invasion, an unpopular move opposed by most of Europe. Now Poles are afraid that they will be left alone to face frosty relations with the other European states. The situation is a good example of how, in the global village, events in one country...
...that smelled foul to the locals? It seemed that there must have been—I was a witness to fellow internationals’ inside jokes about the U.S., and there seemed to be a general attitude that since Americans weren’t interested in other countries, it stood to reason that we shouldn’t bother too much about them. Many of my American friends reciprocated this sentiment—I learned that Woodbridge seems to them a cliquish group of internationals that doesn’t much care for its integration into the American community...
Long before making his way to Baghdad, Carlson was familiar with the ethical questions faced by journalists struggling to remain balanced as they report on the chaos around them. In 1969, he stood with Harvard’s radicals as they barricaded the doors to University Hall, snapping pictures as the students ransacked Faculty files. When then-University President Nathan M. Pusey ’28 called in the police—whom Carlson describes as “looking like gladiators” as they came in at dawn carrying sledgehammers—Carlson witnessed classmates being beaten...