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...above the fray while the internecine policy battles raged, at that point primarily over Iraq. His movement, he seemed to understand with a certain melancholy resignation, had dissipated, had lost the exuberance and intellectual vitality of his storied youth. Increasingly feeble, he gave occasional speeches, delivered with his signature wit but devoid of his former rancor. In the end, it seemed, all the pater familias really wanted was a little peace for his family...
...This is, in essence, a true story and it is one that writer-director Stefan Ruzowitzky tells with cool wit and subtle tension in The Counterfeiters, which is nominated for best foreign film at this Sunday's Oscars...
...easy task, and the Crimson’s strong play in the past several seasons has raised expectations. Not only will Harvard have an additional motive in its desire to triumph over Duke in their first match of the 2008-2009 season, when the Crimson meets up wit its old coach, but now there will also be an incentive should Harvard ever cross paths with Notre Dame. “If we meet at NCAA finals, I don’t know who his mother will support,” Bobby Clark joked. “He could split...
...weeks after 9/11, TV broadcasters were beacons for edgy viewers. Few were more unflappable than former ABC News chief national-security correspondent John McWethy. After a plane crashed into the Pentagon, the Emmy-winning McWethy, then in the building, reported from a nearby lawn. Known for his fairness, wit, trove of sources and willingness to tell editors they were wrong, he counted among his admirers the most senior members of ABC and the Defense Department. McWethy, recently retired, died after sliding chest-first into a tree while skiing...
...July 1863—which was, Faust devilishly adds, “just in time for Gettysburg.” It takes great talent to make a reader laugh while writing about the Civil War. No one, even the fashionable lady mourner, is exempt from Faust’s wit. Everyone’s story—whether they’re a private or a general, a slave or a Harvard scholar—is fair game. Faust tells us about Walt Whitman’s attempts to nurse wounded soldiers, Clara Barton’s mission to exhume...