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...Clinton's Legacy Joe Klein thinks Bill Clinton's book will usher in "a brief return to the noxious '90s, a brouhaha for which not many people are nostalgic" [June 28]. This is a clear example of a writer's getting carried away by his powers of alliteration. Everybody I know is nostalgic for the '90s, but maybe people like us, who come from the L.A. ghetto, don't count. When Bill Clinton dies, the streets of Washington, D.C., will be thronged with weeping, praying mourners. But they won't be like the people who watched Reagan's funeral procession...
...managed to capture, in a brief speech, the promise of progressive politics and the magic of America. The man is impossible to caricature: he speaks just as strongly about God’s gifts and the limits of government as he does about America’s responsibility to lift workers out of poverty. Obama is an optimist despite setbacks, an intellectual with a common touch and a professional politician who can truly inspire...
...best news was that scientists have found--for the first time--a drug that delays the onset of Alzheimer's in patients with mild cognitive impairment. These are people who have memory problems (slips of the tongue, brief memory lapses) but can still balance a checkbook or prepare a meal. The drug they were given, Pfizer's Aricept, is widely prescribed for patients who already have Alzheimer's. In a trial conducted by researchers at the Mayo Clinic, nearly 800 patients were randomly assigned Aricept, a placebo or vitamin E for three years. In checkups after...
...brood. When we asked if by any chance the girls could perform a number, they quickly assumed their places. Allie and Diana conferred ?backstage? as Catherine warmed up the audience of three. When there was a momentary delay, the four-year-old announced, ?We will now have a brief intermission.? The soubrettes then materialized, to sing - not an Alicia Keys or Gretchen Wilson hit, but a number from ?42nd Street,? the 1981 Broadway show revived three years ago and still running, and, in deepest antiquity, the 1933 Warner Bros. musical. And not the famous title song or the semi-standards...
...then there were those who just didn’t know quite what to do. Entering the FleetCenter after a brief respite in the New York Times’ media center, Schuker and I ran straight into perhaps our most well-known target: the Rev. Jesse Jackson...