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...hundred days, and he has constructed this book out of fragments of Calley's own sentences. Sack says in his introduction that "I liked being with Lieutenant Calley. To me he seemed sensible, intelligent if intelligence lies in the life examined, sensitive, sincere...." Sack's editing of the transcript, however, does not make Calley come across as the bright, likeable fellow whom he, perhaps, intended to portray. Calley is confused, tentative, and reluctant to draw any conclusions, to accept or give blame for what happened at My Lai. But he is normal, as intelligent and humorous as the next fellow...
Then came the snapper. The Heights published last February a full transcript of a meeting in which BC's Board of Trustees discussed ways of preventing the University's Vice-president, considered a "radical" by the businessmen and divines who order the affairs of Boston College, from exercising authority. The publication--whatever its source--is an example of "editorial responsibility" in its highest sense. It afforded the students a glimpse into the political bias and secretive operation of the school's governing board--proceedings which had been as dark to the students of BC as the manipulations of the Harvard...
Then came the snapper. The Heights published last February a full transcript of a meeting in which BC's Board of Trustees discussed ways of preventing the University's Vice-president, considered a "radical" by the businessmen and divines who order the affairs of Boston College, from exercising authority. The publication--whatever its source--is an example of "editorial responsibility" in its highest sense. It afforded the students a glimpse into the political bias and secretive operation of the school's governing board--proceedings which had been as dark to the students of BC as the manipulations of the Harvard...
Then came the snapper. The Heights published last February a full transcript of a meeting in which BC's Board of Trustees discussed ways of preventing the University's Vice-president, considered a "radical" by the businessmen and divines who order the affairs of Boston College, from exercising authority. The publication--whatever its source--is an example of "editorial responsibility" in its highest sense. It afforded the students a glimpse into the political bias and secretive operation of the school's governing board--proceedings which had been as dark to the students of BC as the manipulations of the Harvard...
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