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...Keegan, perhaps the greatest living military historian. William F. Buckley Jr. was so taken with his subject--Pope John Paul II--that he awakened senior editor Joshua Cooper Ramo early on a Sunday morning to chat about how best to end his piece. The pairings--which also include Elie Wiesel on Hitler, Doris Kearns Goodwin on Eleanor Roosevelt and Salman Rushdie on Gandhi--led to a set of portraits that are at once authoritative and impressionistic, pieces that we think add invaluable personal insight to the historical record...
Distinctions are in order--the first being the distinction between the blood feuder's demand for revenge, atrocity for atrocity, and Elie Wiesel's "Remember!" Night and day. The first wants murder. The second seeks to prevent murder...
...more political note, French president Jacques Chirac was awarded the peace prize for "commemorating the 50th anniversary of Hiroshima with atomic bomb tests in the Pacific." Chirac, who was not present at the event, was congratulated by Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel in an audio message played at the ceremony...
...ELIE WIESEL Author and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize Don't be worried. There is something called the wisdom of the people, and we must have faith in it. A Jewish wise man once said, "Trust the people, for they may not be prophets, but they are the children of prophets." History is irreversible. Think about tomorrow. There will be negotiations. During the campaign, Netanyahu spoke like Peres; Peres spoke like Netanyahu. So don't worry. It will...
...Wiesel added, "No one should ever speak out superiority. Racism is stupid, it is stupid...