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Uncovering dirt is the job that made Hersh's name. He won the Pulitzer in 1970 for exposing the My Lai massacre in Vietnam. Later he detailed the CIA campaign of domestic spying against Americans. He gained a best seller and a National Book Critics Circle Award with The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House. Now comes the book he hopes will be the capstone of his career. His publisher, Little, Brown--a subsidiary of Time Inc., the publisher of this magazine--is rolling out a sizable first printing of 350,000 copies. Hersh is bracing...
...legend. The legend survives because it was more than that. Kennedy was a turning point in American life, a President who restarted the nation's psychic engines and successfully brought the U.S. through some of the worst predicaments of the cold war. All the immensities of the later 1960s--Vietnam, the racial transformation of America and the erstwhile youth revolution--were set in motion during his presidency. That same complicated stature makes him a legitimate target for the grinding inquiries of real historians. It also makes him a natural one for the mud balls of less scrupulous commentators...
Critics of the university's admission process insist they also favor diversity. That usually sounds strained coming from affirmative-action foes. But Cohen points to his own lengthy progressive resume. He once headed the A.C.L.U.'s Ann Arbor chapter and was known during the Vietnam War era as "the long-hair guy" for his work lobbying public schools to let students with shoulder-length hair attend class. He has long given money to the A.C.L.U. and the N.A.A.C.P., and still does, he says. But Cohen says he parted ways with the civil rights mainstream because he wants to see diversity...
...part, Le immigrated empty-handed from Vietnam in 1991 and yet managed to become valedictorian of her Portland, Maine, high school. But her limited grasp of English made the SATs a horror: she scored 400 on the verbal portion (800 is perfect). At Bates she has a 3.6 GPA and interns at a hospital. "The fact that I've done well here shows that SAT scores don't affect how well a person can do," she says...
...mass meetings were directed at broad political goals like civil rights and the ending of the Vietnam War. But today, Janofsky explains, many Americans have lost faith in the ability of the government to make life better. These mass events are symbols of a newfound belief that the responsibility for social change stops at the individual. Instead of lobbying to change government policy, we should look within ourselves, repent, and change our lives for the better. This, Janofsky concludes, is the message of these recent mass events...