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...campus. “All of us at the University should be grateful to those who defend our country and the freedoms that make it possible for an institution like Harvard to exist,” he wrote in an e-mailed statement. “Since the Viet Nam war, differences over the policy choices of elected officials have sometimes led to unfortunate cleavages between the military and the academic community. I believe repairing these rifts is of great importance...
...still has G.O.P. backers. Viet Dinh, former assistant AG to John Ashcroft and an author of the Patriot Act, has been his best friend since they had a nightlong argument freshman year at Harvard about what the framers of the Constitution thought of men's souls. Dinh toes the G.O.P. line on the probe but believes "Preet can be trusted to follow the facts and take appropriate actions." Gonzales testifies April...
...boom -- boom-boom-boomboomboom boom. The driver, a Palestinian whose taxi had the blue license plates of the occupied territories and not the hated yellow Israeli plates, gave the Palestinian V-sign of solidarity with his fingers (the gesture, seen everywhere in the territories, means not peace, as in Viet Nam days in America, but rather, ''We are here; we endure; we exist; we will not give up''). But the pounding went on, for the foreigner was suspect, an intruder, and the crowd was in a stoning mood. The driver threw his Mercedes into reverse and sped backward...
Perot soon started trying to make big things happen. In 1969 he hired two Boeing 707s to carry Christmas gifts to American prisoners of war in North Viet Nam. The Communists did not cooperate, but Perot's reputation as a quixotic adventurer was born. The same year, he sent 152 spouses and children of missing servicemen to the Paris peace talks in a failed bid to parley with North Vietnamese negotiators. Starting in 1971, Perot launched a rescue bid on Wall Street by buying two failing brokerages and sinking $100 million into their revival. That effort failed in 1974. Perot...
This loss of faith in the President is perhaps the most significant?as well as disturbing?result of the current White House crisis. Over the past two decades Viet Nam and Watergate seriously diminished the presidency. For many Americans, Ronald Reagan, with his can-do optimism, returned some of the old luster to the office. Much of that has faded in the past month. "One of the hallmarks of the Reagan presidency has been his ability to restore the public's confidence in the White House as an institution and in Government's ability to perform," says a Republican political...