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...speaks fluidly and with candor, and there isn't even a sliver of personal animosity in his voice, but it's easy to detect the contempt with which Clarke views Harvard's institutional opinion of boxing...
...First Lady with a complex moral and political philosophy who not only tries to articulate it, but also believes it could be useful to the nation. "If she wants to talk about the discontents of her own climb, and the spiritual emptiness she feels, congratulations to her for rare candor," wrote Jacob Weisberg in the New Republic. "But her yuppie awakening doesn't mean everyone else is a moral failure...
Broadway has welcomed gay material before. But a breakthrough in unabashed candor and commercial viability came with last season's best musical, Falsettos, which centers on a father who leaves his wife and son to take up with a male lover who dies of AIDS. While it sounds grim, the show is in large part a cheerfully neurotic comedy; its mordant wit in the face of death is yet another index of a gay aesthetic. The producers have shrewdly emphasized the show's celebration of families of all kinds in testimonial ads touting it as fit for rabbis and priests...
Such startling candor shook the White House just as it was warming up the 100-days fog machine. But behind the scenes, many officials were quietly grateful. Panetta's comments echoed warnings from top aides in recent weeks that Clinton was, as one put it, "everywhere, and nowhere, at once." Though officials dutifully huffed that Panetta was "off the message," they hastened to note that they concurred fully with his conclusions. Within days, Clinton had throttled back; his proposal for reforming campaign finance had been postponed, and measures on crime and welfare reform were sidetracked. As a relieved Democrat...
...beginning (a borrowing, let it be stated in all candor, from the first sentence of the Book of Genesis), Stephen B. Oates, an author and a history professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, wrote With Malice Toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln. Published in 1977, this biography received a number of positive notices. The New York Times Book Review predicted that Oates' book "is very probably going to replace Thomas' book as the standard one-volume life of Lincoln," which, abetted by a paperback reprint the following year, is essentially what happened. The "Thomas" the Times reviewer cited...