My Professor, the Spy
Accused Castro spy Walter Kendall Myers taught political science under Paul Wolfowitz at Johns Hopkins, remembers his student, Tom Murray. On the syllabus: lectures praising double agents.
Stephen Colbert, NorthwesternStephen Colbert perfected his Method eyebrow raise as a theater major at Northwestern ('86) after transferring from Ha...
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Lynn Sherr is a former ABC News correspondent, author of Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words and Tall Blondes, a book about giraffes. She is also co-editor of Peter Jennings: A Reporter's Life. Her most recent book, a memoir—Outside the Box: My Unscripted Life of Love, Loss and Television News—is out in paperback.
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