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However, even this eminent English scholar had trouble adjusting to the hurried life of Harvard University.
Easy for us Americans to say, of course. We already have power, indeed, the pre-eminent power in the world. And we've had it for a half-century. No wonder our elites are so bored with it, so enamored of treaties and conventions and all manner of devices that...
Khomeini was then the disciple of Iran's pre-eminent cleric, Ayatullah Mohammed Boroujerdi, a defender of the tradition of clerical deference to established power. But in 1962, after Boroujerdi's death, Khomeini revealed his long-hidden wrath and acquired a substantial following as a sharp-tongued antagonist of the...
DIED. HENRY STEELE COMMAGER, 95, pre-eminent chronicler of American history and ardent defender of the Constitution upon which the country was founded; in Amherst, Mass. For close to 70 years, Commager's essays, books and meditations probed the nation's politics and psyche. A teacher for 65 years, Commager...
Or maybe no verbal articulation of sociology and politics could have equalled the visual impact of this scene: certainly America's and possibly the world's pre-eminent black novelist standing before white marble busts of white former presidents, reading a story of riven societies while the wall behind her...