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...artistically and commercially. After Joan's death he went into therapy for two years. He resisted the process at first because, like Tennessee Williams, he feared his neuroses were the source of his talent. "I didn't have to worry. I remained as neurotic as ever but got a clearer perspective." He found the process so helpful that he still sees counselors from time to time, one on each coast. "That's the height of luxury," he says. "Matching analysts...
...rhetoric, he's been embraced by liberals, moderates and even some Republicans and evangelical Christians. But no matter how many videos his campaign staff puts out showing his 2004 convention speech in which he talked about getting beyond those divides, a presidential campaign will force him to stake out clearer positions that will inevitably alienate some. Moderates and conservatives will learn that Obama has a more liberal voting record than Clinton, according to congressional voting rankings, while liberals will find that he's not in favor of pulling troops out of Iraq as fast as many would like...
...news, odd-lot foreign pieces and lengthy jumps from the first page. Now you pretty much know where you are, with clearly delineated page headings like The Economy, Leading the News, Politics & Economics. (There's even a page now that carries the rubric From Page One. Can't be clearer than that...
...constellation of Congressional actions, a declaration of war is simply clearer, less cluttered than an authorization for war. There's a pusillanimous, don't-blame-me quality to simply giving the President the keys, inviting him to take the wheel and then tsk-tsk'ing if he wrecks the thing. War is a mortally serious business, one that is best not embarked on by granting the commander in chief a mush-mouthed authority to do that which he's empowered to do anyway. It's a little like those make-work proclamations Congress periodically busies itself issuing - declaring November Reading...
...they pass.’” But Deputy Superintendent Carolyn Turk said that the district was not concerned only with MCAS performance. “We have a universal focus on achievement,” she said. “We now have a much clearer curriculum and we have opportunities for students to show their improvement, and that’s life beyond MCAS.” —Staff writer Laura A. Moore can be reached at lamoore@fas.harvard.edu...