An Evening with Investigative Journalist Seymour Hersh

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Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh will discuss his bestseller "Chain of Command" on Tuesday, Feb. 13, at Williams College. The talk is scheduled for 8 p.m. in Chapin Hall. The event is free and open to the public. Seating is available on a first come basis. "Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib" chronicles the path from the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 to the American prisoner abuse scandals of Abu Ghraib. The book is based on articles that originally appeared in The New Yorker magazine. In a 2004 interview in Salon, Hersh said that he thought that Rumsfeld and senior administration officials had a chance in the fall of 2002 to set the limits and chose not to. "The chain of command is very responsive," he said. "If you put out the word that you're not going to tolerate this, it's not going to happen. But that's not the word they put out." Hersh is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and has written dozens of stories on military and security matters surrounding the U.S.-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. One of the most controversial and award-winning journalists in the past 40 years, he was the first to expose the My Lai massacre of the Vietnam War in 1969. He also revealed the wiretapping authorized by Henry Kissinger during the Nixon administration and the C.I.A.'s sale of U.S. weapons to Libya during the 1980s. More recently, Hersh uncovered the prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib. His work has won more than a dozen major journalism prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and four George Polk Awards. His best-selling books, "The Dark Side of Camelot" about President Kennedy and "The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House," won major national awards and were on bestseller lists for weeks. His other book prizes include the 1983 National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times award for biography, and the Sidney Hillman award. He won an Investigative Reporters & Editors prize for the Kissinger book in 1983, and another in 1992 for "The Samson Option," a study of American foreign policy and the Israeli nuclear bomb program. In 2004, Hersh won a National Magazine Award in public interest for his three pieces, "Lunch with the Chairman," "Selective Intelligence," and "The Stovepipe," an investigation of neoconservatives at the Pentagon. Richard Perle threatened to sue Hersh for libel after "Lunch with the Chairman" was published, but he failed to file suit. Hersh began his career in journalism working for The New York Times.
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Berkshire Ajax Soccer Club Sets Tryouts

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- The Berkshire Ajax Soccer Club will  hold a tryout for the 2025 spring season on Sunday, Nov. 10, on Williams College's Farley-Lamb turf field.
 
Girls with birth dates from 2006-2012 will try out from 9:15 to 10:30 a.m. Boys with birth dates from 2006-2012 will try out from 10:30 to noon.
 
You must fill out the Berkshire Ajax Club Registration and the Club Waiver form by going online to berkshireajax.com.
 
Players should wear shin guards and bring water.
 
Please contact Mike Russo (trusso@williams.edu) or call or text at 413-441-6127 with any questions.
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