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There is a lot going through athletes’ heads when the pressure is on. They may repeat words of self-encouragement, envision images of victory, or even wish curses upon their opponents. Most, however, are not imagining dialogue for a new hit musical...
Biographer Patricia O’Toole tells the story of Roosevelt’s twilight in the concise, smooth prose that one would expect from the Columbia University writing teacher that she is. In When Trumpets Call, released by Simon & Schuster last month, O’Toole draws upon a wealth of primary sources—including several collections of letters of Roosevelt’s family members that are stashed away in Harvard’s Houghton Library—to offer the reader a glimpse into TR’s most private thoughts...
...upon returning from his African sojourn, Roosevelt found that his presidential legacy was unravelling. Taft failed to maintain the pace of reform that Roosevelt had set. Indecisive—and overweight—Taft lacked the firmness to be a strong leader and dreamed only of becoming Supreme Court chief justice (a dream that would be realized...
...strange web addresses all the time, it’s hard to see it that way. Instead, it seems to us that HBS had posted their admit list on a proverbial telephone pole somewhere in Cambridge, location undisclosed, and some curious applicants had gone out looking and stumbled upon it. Is such an action reprehensible? Is it worthy of automatic rejection...
Lipstadt had refused to appear on C-SPAN upon learning of the planned broadcast time of Irving’s lecture...