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...joys of the presidency was getting to meet and to know people I had long admired. John Kenneth Galbraith fit squarely into that camp.” Many affectionately recalled Galbraith’s idiosyncrasies, such as his unapologetic ego. “I’m old, sick, weak, and intellectually perfect,” his son J. Alan Galbraith ’63 remembered him saying in response to a question about his health shortly before his death. George S. McGovern, a former U.S. senator and presidential candidate, described Galbraith’s division...
...levee system fail? The Corps's system suffered from faulty design that was based on outdated scientific data. The network of canals and levees, built piecemeal over 40 years, was constructed to withstand relatively weak hurricanes, not the Katrina-size monsters that scientists had more recently warned...
...access to, the fellow undergraduates that I knew, plus opportunities to participate in track and field and in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, all contributed to my overall experiences,” he writes in an e-mail. Returning as a Junior Fellow in 1959, Wilson was unsatisfied with the weakness of theoretical physics at Harvard.He received a doctorate from the California Institute of Technology in 1961, and joined the physics faculty at Cornell University in 1963.“I accepted the [job] offer because Cornell was a good university, was out in the country and was reputed to have...
When a horse does get hurt, it's nice to have a repair shop like the Widener Hospital on hand. As would any doctor, one of the first things surgeon Dean Richardson did when Barbaro arrived was feel his patient's pulse--in several spots along the injured leg. Weak pulses or a cold foot would have meant that blood-vessel injury had occurred and the limb was lost. "He had good, strong pulses, and his foot was warm," says Richardson. "I was thrilled...
...some men in Kilo Company apparently snap? Perhaps because of the stress of fighting a violent and unpopular war--or because their commanders failed them. Military psychiatrists who have studied what makes a soldier's moral compass go haywire in battle look first for a weak chain of command. That was a factor in the March 1968 My Lai massacre in Vietnam, when U.S. soldiers, including members of an Army platoon led by Lieut. William Calley, killed some 500 Vietnamese. Says a retired Army Green Beret colonel who fought in Vietnam: "Somebody has failed to say, 'No, that...