I once took a course whose professor instructed students to design our own final exams. Instead of our floundering over the vastness of our incomprehension of the assigned subject matter, he wanted us to show what we did know ...Mary H. Hall.
“The first casualty when war comes is truth.” So spoke Sen. Hiram W. Johnson to Congress in 1917. Johnson would die of old age on the very date of the nuclear attack on Hiroshima. Or, at least we should think he died of old age ...Mary H. Hall.