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John P. Ellis, a Boston Globe columnist and aformer IOP fellow, said members of the braintrustassume Bush will run for the presidency as aRepublican candidate...
According to your columnist Jack E. White, the President's impeachment trial was about racism and bigotry [DIVIDING LINE, Feb. 1]. Silly me. I thought it was about whether or not the President perjured himself and obstructed justice. What was I thinking? Please, can we get past all the efforts to cloud the issue and instead focus on the facts? Don't try to change the subject. RICK DUDLEY Vista, Calif...
...columnist Murray Kempton invented the term "the Family" to describe the New York intellectuals--a half-forgotten confraternity of writers and thinkers--clustered roughly around Partisan Review and Commentary. But it was Norman Podhoretz, in his young rooster's memoir, Making It (1968), who gave the term currency. In the Family (Philip Rahv, Mary McCarthy, Dwight Macdonald, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Irving Howe, Harold Rosenberg, Hannah Arendt and others), Podhoretz played a noisy, precocious younger brother, an irritant who would not stay put ideologically. In recoil against the Eisenhower inertia, Podhoretz had steered to the radical left by the early...
Luckily, Wright doesn't take anything too seriously until later in the movie when she's forced to play this silly melodrama straight. As a research lackey for a Chicago Tribune columnist, she finally does something fun as she tracks down the origin of the letter. Her selfish motivation is oddly reminiscent of Meg Ryan's valiant quest in Sleepless in Seattle. But whereas the latter is whimsical and heart-warming, the Penn-Costner combination is a bust from the start. In fact, Wright has more chemistry with the man she initially mistakes for G than with Costner, her dream...
...pass is as American as apple pie. The researchers report that sexual dysfunction, ranging from lack of interest in sex to the inability to have an orgasm, afflicts 43 percent of women and 31 percent of men. "The results of this study are surprising," says TIME medical columnist Christine Gorman, "because there have been a number of studies of married people, for example, that indicate that there is more sex, and more pleasure in sex, than might have been expected." This study, however, highlights the often glossed-over fact that there is much more to sex and love than just...