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...good political instincts, but the problem is that he's so facile and adroit that people come away thinking they've heard what they want to hear," says a senior campaign adviser. Hillary does not have this problem. "She's quicker to clarify and make decisions than Bill," says Carolyn Staley, a longtime friend of the candidate...
Morton's is the headliner because his sources include Diana's brother Charles and Carolyn Bartholomew, a close friend. It may be that the impetuous princess, despairing of the prince's love, got sick of all those saccharine tomes and decided to get her real story out. The result is avidly pro-Diana. But was it worth it -- publicizing the distasteful bouts with bulimia, the pitiful suicidal gestures, the shouting matches in which she shows up as a fishwife...
...presidential campaign, and young Bill watched with fascination both parties' conventions. In 1958 Governor Orval Faubus closed the high school in Little Rock to prevent integration, and some families brought their children the 50 miles to Hot Springs to enroll them in Clinton's school. When Clinton and Carolyn Staley, class leaders as well as good friends, were elected to Boys Nation and Girls Nation, they went to Washington and shook John Kennedy's hand in the White House...
...Carolyn Staley, who lived next door to the Clintons when she and Bill were in high school, says that as a preacher's kid, she never even knew about the town's reputation as sin city. Did the Clintons know? I ask her. "Oh, yes, they were more sophisticated, more worldly-wise." Clinton's mother liked the gambling, and his stepfather, who was still drinking, flew into rages when he was not sure where she had been. In a deposition for divorce proceedings, the mother feared for her son's safety: "He has continually tried to do bodily harm...
...subsequent pieces are more personal, zeroing in on the experience of particular Angelenos. Novelist Carolyn Sees' "Melting" is a funny and complex autobiographical meditation on racial relations which brilliantly shows how L.A's diversity affects a few personalities. Sidestepping the sociological buzzwords about multiculturalism, she details a world where interaction between people of different groups is an inevitability and a fact rather than a fashionable political decision...