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1. Yet doing nothing comes at a cost. Administrations that neglected, underestimated, or sidelined religion found themselves blindsided. President John F. Kennedy's foreign policy, for example, never recovered from his ignorance of the Buddhist monks who upset the equilibrium of South Vietnam's politics. The Bu

the U.S.-backed regime of Ngo Dinh Diem. "How could this have happened? Who are these people? Why didn't we know about them before?" an exasperated Kennedy asked about the Buddhists -- who merely represented 90 percent of South Vietnam's population -- after the outbreak of their revolt. Diem, of course

ll win the United States a very large, and very important, audience. ANDREW PRESTON is Senior Lecturer in History and a Fellow of Clare College at Cambridge University. He is the author, most recently, of Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy. Anicic 6. The Economist China'

hairman Emeritus of the Board of Directors of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. In 2007, Mr. Sch

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by Greenwich Exchange, London. She has appeared in venues as diverse as Glastonbury festival, Ronnie Scotts Jazz Bar, London's Southbank Centre and Cambridge University and has had poems commissioned by Radio 4 Womans Hour, WOW festival, Tate Modern and Channel 4 Random Acts. She performs across the UK as well as a

email screamed, one of a dozen emails that greeted me as I turned on my phone at the baggage carousel at Malpensa Airport after the long flight from JFK. “The great American visionary thinker John Brockman arrives this morning at Grand Hotel Milan. You MUST, repeat MUST pay him a visit.” It was signed

OMPUTERS BECOME OUR OVERLORDS? Venki Ramakrishnan Venki Ramakrishnan is a scientist at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge University; recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2009); current president of the Royal Society; and the author of Gene Machine: The Race to Discover the S

email screamed, one of a dozen emails that greeted me as I turned on my phone at the baggage carousel at Malpensa Airport after the long flight from JFK. “The great American visionary thinker John Brockman arrives this morning at Grand Hotel Milan. You MUST, repeat MUST pay him a visit.” It was signed

OMPUTERS BECOME OUR OVERLORDS? Venki Ramakrishnan Venki Ramakrishnan is a scientist at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge University; recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2009); current president of the Royal Society; and the author of Gene Machine: The Race to Discover the S

ding British writer on the Middle East. His latest book is The Struggle for Arab Independence: Riad el-Solh and the Makers of the Modern Middle East (Cambridge University Press). HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024969 --- PAGE BREAK --- Article 3. NYT -— Books Mohamed EIBaradel, the Inspector Leslie H. Gelb THE AGE OF DECEPTION

here he later died from a ruptured aorta.) At his Kennedy Center memorial service, which played more like a