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...Senate this year. But the unintended damage was to the credibility of the Republican presidential candidates, all of whom had noisily rattled sabers about Iran. Once again the black-and-white neoconservative view of the Middle East region had been proved wrong. At first the antique neocon Norman Podhoretz actually insisted, "The intelligence community, which has for some years now been leaking material calculated to undermine George W. Bush, is doing it again. This time the purpose is to head off the possibility that the President may order air strikes on the Iranian nuclear installations." Soon, even Podhoretz...
...against Kissinger’s tenure. It was that same Chomsky who complained when I wrote a letter—in response to a request from the former chairman of the political science department—detailing misquotations, made-up facts, and other scholarly sins by anti-Israel extremist Norman Finkelstein and urging DePaul University to deny him tenure. I also remember when it was Professor Matory who tried to prevent former University President Lawrence H. Summers from exercising his freedom of speech with regard to Israel when he was president...
French playwright Georges Feydeau originally titled his play “A qui ma femme?,” which translator and Wesleyan University Professor Norman R. Shapiro modified into the more evocative title of the Adams production. In rollicking hyperbole, “Take Her, She’s Yours!,” directed by Emerson College Professor Sunil Swaroop and produced by David A. Seley, demonstrated how the doldrums of married life can lead to a disastrous array of affairs...
...you’re getting your money right back.”The bookstore’s award-winning Author Event Series, which brought 280 authors to Cambridge last year, has drawn a variety of famous and up-and-coming authors, including Al Gore ’69, Norman Mailer ’43, and a then-unknown Barack Obama.“When we had Barack Obama, I think there were, like, 20 people in the store,” says Gain.“[General Manager] Carole [M. Horne] and I were both there,” says...
...that people can be corrupted by circumstances. Enough said. Of course Harvard and Yale have produced comparably great novelists, the same way we have comparably lackluster football teams. But for the sake of school spirit, I can argue that John H. Updike ’54 and Norman K. Mailer ’43 are objectively better than Tom Perrotta and Tom Wolfe. And, obviously, F. Scott Fitzgerald doesn’t matter...