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...East Texas, The Liars' Club (Viking; 320 pages; $22.95), was a surprise best seller earlier this year, discovered an "incredible kinship" with audiences on a tour of public readings from her book. "They were people from every walk of American life--bankers, professors, laborers, blacks, whites, literates and illiterates. Afterward they came up to the stage to tell me about childhoods far worse than mine, or some terrible family secret and how they were able to go on living and loving despite it. I learned that everyone has a dark patch in their history." And increasingly, it seems, everyone...
...questioned the men and women who are making it. Seven TIME journalists went along, joined by a few TIME executives and resident correspondents in each city, but it was our guests from other walks of life--acting as honorary journalists--who asked most of the questions and afterward debated most fiercely the honesty and meaning of the answers...
They were united, briefly, in an anxious silence of the heart. As soon as the verdict was read, however, they split apart; they could watch themselves do it on the split screens. On one side jubilation, on the other dismay. Afterward it was said that America should have seen this coming, that the division of the races cut so deep, it ought to have been obvious that two nations had always been hiding...
Student reactions at the dinner afterward were mixed...
Later that day, President Bush and Scowcroft spoke with Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi ambassador to the U.S. and an old racquetball partner of mine. They wanted Bandar to understand the threat his country faced and to know that we were prepared to come to its aid. Afterward, Scowcroft called Cheney. Bandar was coming over, he said, and we were to give him another dose of reality. On his arrival at Cheney's office, Bandar played his usual Americanized, jaunty fighter-pilot role, drinking coffee from a foam cup and stirring it with a gold pen. Ordinarily, we addressed...