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...incident at the mosque appeared to demonstrate what a more experienced colleague told me: "The Americans make great liberators but lousy occupiers. They combine the ignorance and arrogance of American youth with the blood-lust of soldiers fresh from battle." I asked marines if they had been given maps, books or briefings explaining the different neighborhoods and communities of Baghdad, and they said no. Had they been given such material, or even simply accompanied, like their counterparts in Bosnia, by a local translator, they might have avoided that moment of tension. Indeed, properly briefed, they might even appreciate the significance...
Dartboard was delighted to cautiously expose sun-deprived skin this week after months of brisk New England weather. Unfortunately, while tempting the melanoma gods, Dartboard was also subjected to the perennial bellyaching of pale Harvard youth: If only we were in Southern California right now—it would be like this every...
Crossing the River is divided into two sections. The first is a chronological sketch of Wechsler’s youth and time at Harvard; the second, his years in East Germany...
Outside of classes, Wechsler found his niche among “the radical left-wing bunch.” He threw himself into the Harvard Liberal Union and the campus branch of the communist party, serving for a while as campus chair of the American Youth for Democracy. Wechsler also sang with the Glee Club and attended performances by the drama club...
...first section of Crossing the River, about Wechsler’s American youth, was originally published in German in the 1980s under the title Route Across the Border...