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They're like twin antediluvian monstrosities: too ugly, too wonky, too scaly and strange to flourish in today's cold political climate when the blinding comet of television has wiped out their kind, leaving only furry grinning mammals behind. Richard Nixon barely knew Henry Kissinger when he appointed him, notes Robert Dallek in Nixon and Kissinger, but they turned out to be two of a kind: both the products of unhappy childhoods, both paranoid, combative, grandiose, deceptive, relentlessly driven men. They shared power on an unprecedented basis, and it's hypnotic and--retroactively--terrifying to watch this unsteady Siamese-twin...
...broad range of degree and non-degree programs into a single community. Carlos De La Rosa, a full-time student in the Master of Liberal Arts (ALM) program in information technology; Craig Sams, a Bachelor of Liberal Arts (ALB) candidate with an emphasis in creative writing and literature; and Richard Gonzalez, an ALM student in environmental management, are all running for president of the organization, which was formed in 2001. “The student association is really new and the evolution of a heavily contested election is really new,” said Christian Hassold, the outgoing chair...
...Richard Bach, author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull and renowned expert on eternal suffering, once observed: “Hell is a place, a time, a consciousness in which there is no love.” He forgot about the Morse Media Room and the jejune dioramas discussing the relationship between music and math. I mean to say without equivocation that Lamont Library is the worst place I have ever been, or could ever conceive of visiting...
...also see our poll on TIME.com in which 2.5 million votes put Korean R&B singer Rain on top, followed by Stephen Colbert. And for an alternative take, go online to read Joel Stein's Alt 100, a decidedly different and more humorous list of influentials. Richard Stengel, MANAGING EDITOR...
...incumbents were re-elected (F.D.R. in 1944, Bush in 2004). Twice, the wars were not going well, and the incumbent party lost (Korea in 1952, with Harry Truman choosing not to run and Dwight Eisenhower beating Adlai Stevenson; and Vietnam in 1968, with Lyndon Johnson withdrawing and Richard Nixon beating Hubert Humphrey...