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...Must-Read of 1967 William Manchester, the author of highly acclaimed books on military and political power, died last month [MILESTONES, June 14]. The Death of a President, his 1967 account of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, was a blockbuster that, as TIME reported, took the world by storm [April...
...ARENA: Joe Klein on the Bush team's gathering storm...
When Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm and Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air came out in 1997--within a month of each other, as it happened--we rediscovered the joy of reading about very bad things happening to real people, preferably in exotic locales. Maybe it's because we never feel quite so warm and comfy in our poolside deck chairs, fruity cocktail in hand, as when we're reading a true-life yarn about somebody else drowning or freezing to death or doing both simultaneously...
...disturbing echoes: men in blindfolds squatting on the floor looking disoriented, then being forced to march over rocky ground. These were not images of Abu Ghraib, but videos of British servicemen, part of a naval training team, arrested by Iranian forces after straying into Iranian waters during a storm. The sailors quickly apologized on TV, and after four tense days they were released as moderates in Tehran apparently prevailed in an internal power struggle. But hard-liners in the Revolutionary Guards had seemed eager to goad London, suggesting the men were special forces. According to Sadegh Ziba Kalam, professor...
...middle of the night, surrounded by hostile guards and attack dogs. But then, Rumsfeld's blustery testosteronics are at the heart of what has gone wrong with the Bush foreign policy-and last week the assorted temper tantrums appeared to be a leading indicator of a gathering summer storm confronting this presidency...