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...popularity make him a popular (but elusive) choice for a thesis advisor. A word of caution: you’ll be expected to take some courses at the nearby Divinity School, which is not the walk in the park that many claim. If the distance doesn’t kill you, then the glares you’ll receive from Div School students just might. This smaller concentration is for a niche audience, one that craves individual attention and eschews the claustrophobic environment of Government or Economics. You’re going to read and write...
...purge school of exam-taking. The Curricular Review promises big changes to all this—eventually.But until that day comes, use the Confi Guide as a primer on using (and abusing?) the Core, especially for incoming freshmen (and you juniors who still have six Cores left to kill).Those of you who wish to use the Core as your gateway to academic experimentation are welcome to, though this primer probably won’t help you much (but then again, you probably don’t need its help). For the rest of you, start by revising...
...Terrorist: The Story of Hans Joachim Klein - which documents the seizing of OPEC Ministers in Vienna in 1975 by a commando brigade that included Klein and was led by Carlos the Jackal - to Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein's meticulous, devastating The Prisoner: Or, How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair, the story of an Iraqi journalist detained for nine months in Abu Ghraib, and falsely accused of a plot to assassinate the British P.M. In this company, a spin of speculative future history like Death of a President played like light, if cautionary, late-summer beach reading...
...attack was carried out by as many as four Islamic militants shouting Muslim slogans in the heart of Damascus's diplomatic quarter not far from Assad's own residence - in short, one of the most heavily protected neighborhoods in Syria, if not the Middle East. The attackers failed to kill any American diplomats, and Syrian security guards apparently managed to slay three of the assailants. But that doesn't mean the terrorists were bumbling amateurs...
...David Weigel of ReasonOnline.com, in an astute piece about Death of a President piquantly titled "Other Than That, Mrs. Bush, How Was the Film?", mentions Nicholson Baker's 2003 novel Checkpoint as one of many novels about a plan to kill Bush. The novelist Richard Condon never lacked for poli-scifi cojones - in Emperor of America he blew up the White House - but his specialty was death-of-a-president fantasies. In The Manchurian Candidate, published in 1959 and filmed three years later, he postulated the assassination of a presidential nominee by a Joe McCarthy type (the right-wingers...