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...Legacy, by James S. Hirsch (Houghton Mifflin; 358 pages; $25), is a quietly devastating account of Tulsa's two-day convulsion of blood and of the struggle years later to return the riot to living memory through a commission of inquiry. Philip Dray's At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America (Random House; 528 pages; $35) is a powerful history of a practice so common by the turn of the 20th century that "spectacle lynchings" were announced in advance in Southern newspapers. You don't really know what lynching was until you read Dray's ghastly...
...Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge often looked flummoxed and misinformed, learning medicine on the go and winging it when they didn't know. It was a sharp contrast to the celebrated performance of former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, who drew a bright line between facts (known and unknown) and his basic message of reassurance, and never seemed to confuse...
...Airlifted The first of more than 300 Afghan war prisoners began a 12,800-km journey from Kandahar airstrip to a U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, chained to their seats aboard a C-17 cargo plane. The operation was conducted amid heightened security after unknown attackers opened fire outside the airport perimeter fence as the first flight took off. The detainees included a handful of prominent al-Qaeda or Taliban leaders - but not those most sought by the U.S., or three former Taliban government officials who surrendered to the new Afghan government and were mysteriously...
Instead, Summers has overridden two undivided recommendations for reasons that—due to the extreme and unnecessary secrecy that surrounds Harvard’s tenure process—remain unknown. Reform of the tenure process is long overdue. But it only requires an assertive president, not an uncooperative...
...season, and even up to this past weekend, the Crimson’s depth has been (and could yet be) a question mark. Last year’s sole freshman, Kam Walton, is no longer with the team, and the four freshmen Sullivan brought in this season were largely unknown. Harvard’s only proven bench players were junior guard Brady Merchant and last year’s starting center, junior Brian Sigafoos...