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...Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963 (Little, Brown; 838 pages), historian Robert Dallek has bravely set himself the task of trying, 40 years and a thousand books after Dallas, to reassemble the pieces of the Kennedy puzzle--essentially, to bridge the considerable distance between the dark side and the somewhat tattered radiance of the myth, between the tabloid hedonist and the martyred saint. It has become a familiar problem: How to explain that the irrational, risk-taking Hefnerian who went to bed with the girlfriend of the Mafia boss of Chicago, who routinely lied about his disastrous health...
...troops stay in Iraq, even for the shortest of postwar periods, Americans will be perceived by the world as empire builders, and our actions in Iraq may spawn a thousand Osama bin Ladens who will visit devastation upon our land. If we leave Iraq, it will splinter into a thousand mini-kingdoms of quarreling power grabbers who may ignite a larger war. We can't go, and we can't stay. BOB KETLER Bethlehem, Conn...
...postwar Iraq situation is already turning into a religious controversy among Islamic groups. Let us not be so naive as to let evangelists take advantage of the situation. The Crusaders did enough damage more than a thousand years ago. RICHARD J. PALMER Isla Verde...
...much of the country, tributaries of the Euphrates run through villages that knew little of Saddam's regime or of the Americans, or at least they seem to care little. They live much as their ancestors did five thousand years ago, in the fertile alluvial plains between the two rivers of Iraq, irrigating their fields beneath palm trees, washing their clothes in the river, and drifting on it in canoes, tossing large fishing nets, living at a pace that appears to have been uninterrupted since civilization began here...
More than a thousand Harvard students found themselves wet and shivering outside Mather House around midnight a couple Saturdays ago. We’ve all heard the story—HUPD had prematurely ended Mather Lather’s overcrowded, foamy revelry, a seemingly disastrous ending to what was a noble attempt by the Mather HoCo to throw a decent party...