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David Stern, the commissioner of basketball, said he should play. Lakers’ coach Phil Jackson said so. His teammates said...
...classroom is familiar territory for Summers, who received tenure at Harvard in 1983 at the then-unprecedented age of 28. But Summers left Harvard’s halls behind yesterday—spending five hours teaching classes and meeting with teachers at the Jackson-Mann Elementary School in Allston—as part of the Boston Plan for Excellence’s Principal For A Day program. About 600 Kindergarten through 5th-grade students from 26 different countries attend the school...
Your "10 Questions For Bill O'Reilly" [INTERVIEW, Oct. 6] quoted the Fox News host as saying about political satirist Al Franken, "He got up in front of a national audience and called me a liar for 20 minutes. President Andrew Jackson would have put a bullet between his eyes." O'Reilly, a petulant man, revealed his crass philosophy, which evidently involves fantasies of killing anyone who points out his lies. JAMIE WAGONER San Francisco...
Given these problems, the actors do a remarkably good job at dealing with the text. In particular, Caroline Jackson ’06 as Ouisa projects the bubbliness of a rich socialite while making it clear that her superficiality is nothing more than a projection, masking a warm motherliness beneath. Michael Moss ’03, as Paul, is so flawlessly charming—if anything, too likable for the part—that it can be hard to remember he’s a crook. And Jon Carpenter ’07 portrays Flan as an art dealer struggling...
...Clark’s larger record in the Balkans without blemish? Hardly. Leave aside his various mistakes in Kosovo, such as his ordering British Gen. Sir Michael Jackson to advance on Russian soldiers at Pristina airport. (Gen. Jackson refused, claiming such a move would’ve precipitated “World War III.”) Seldom mentioned, but indeed troubling, is the nature of Clark’s August 1994 meeting in Banja Luka, Bosnia, with Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic...