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...spent the last two weeks of August in Israel, and while some people in this country may laugh at Ahmadinejad, Israelis take very seriously his threat to wipe Israel off the map. Perhaps when people are within firing range of Iranian missiles, they develop a different point of view. Ross H. Stemer, Roswell, Georgia...
Full disclosure: I spent the better part of my summer listening to the indie rock CDs that flooded the mailboxes I was forced to sort while I worked at a radio station. While I’m not one to complain about free stuff, the forced listening may be directly responsible for my annoyance with the Fiery Furnaces. There was a time when I didn’t mind listening to seven-minute songs with two tempo changes in the first sixty seconds. When the Furnaces sang lyrics demanding that they notarize my will, I thought they were actually kind...
...Faust spent the summer poring over more than a century’s worth of Harvard installation speeches. Many of her predecessors, including Lawrence H. Summers, proposed specific initiatives, in the style of the U.S. president’s annual State of the Union address. (See story here...
...Neill said that Faust’s approach to the installation speech fits with the way she has spent her first few months as president...
...though, all eyes will be on Faust, who, having spent the summer studying the rhetoric of presidents past, will today present a voice that is distinctly...