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Over a year after a pledge at MIT's Phi Gamma Delta fraternity died from alcohol poisoning, MIT has revoked the diploma of Charles H. Yoo, a 1998 MIT graduate who was the fraternity's pledgemaster at the time of the incident...
...says, he imagines himself sitting next to the killer, checking his technique as he carries out the hit. Alexei--a pseudonym--is still in his 30s and was until a few years ago a senior officer in the Spetsnaz, the secret Russian special-forces units modeled on the U.S. Delta Force. When it comes to killing, Alexei knows of what he speaks: he was a specialist in the "physical elimination" of adversaries...
While I was heartened to see that Adam A. Sofen decided to share the insights he learned during his visits with the hopelessly backward people of the Mississippi Delta (Opinion, July 9), I feel I must challenge a few of his assertions...
While I was heartened to see that Adam A. Sofen decided to share the insights he learned during his visits with the hopelessly backward people of the Mississippi Delta (Opinion, July 9), I feel I must challenge a few of his assertions...
What could explain this disconnect? Certainly not the real experiences of the present-day Delta, where racial integration was far more advanced than the plantations would suggest. As I drove from Memphis, Tenn., to Vicksburg and New Orleans, La., small details suggested that perhaps this was the New South after all--like the fact that all three cities have black mayors. Or the businesses where whites worked alongside blacks. Or the brand-new roads and schools serving mostly black small towns. The South being marketed for the tourists was far more reactionary than the real South just out the door...