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...take some electives, like international relations and cultural anthropology. The subjects were getting more interesting, especially as the academy raced to meet new demands. Vincent Viola, a '77 West Point grad who on 9/11 was chairman of the New York Mercantile Exchange, which stood in the shadow of the Twin Towers, credited his academy training with helping him steer the exchange to a speedy recovery. In gratitude, he donated $2 million in seed money for a Combating Terrorism Center at the academy. The center was up and running by February 2003, under the leadership of Colonel Russell Howard, a former...
Besides the four twin-killings turned by some combination of Brown, Farkes, and junior first baseman Josh Klimkiewicz, the Crimson picked off runners with extreme prejudice. In doing so, Harvard never allowed the nine base-runners allowed by Herrmann in Game One to score...
Besides the four twin-killings turned by some combination of Brown, Farkes, and junior first baseman Josh Klimkiewicz, the Crimson picked off runners with extreme prejudice. In doing so, Harvard never allowed the nine base-runners allowed by Herrmann in Game 1 to score...
...didn’t hate going to temple: I enjoyed sermons about how to live a better life, I felt uplifted by the stories, the songs, the togetherness. Along with my twin brother, I became a bat mitzvah. During my speech, I spoke proudly about my religion, while making a dig at Orthodox synagogues that didn’t allow women to read the Torah. That contrast summed...
...army officers, Abu Laith (the alias of a Baath Party member from Fallujah and former captain in Saddam's 6th Armored Division) found himself out of a job when the U.S. dissolved both the Baath Party and the Iraqi military in 2003. His army commission and party membership, formerly twin keys to success in the old Iraq, were now liabilities. For months, he stayed in his house, depressed. "Iraqis thought it was a great honor to be an officer in the army," he said. "I'd lost my honor...