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I read these words to my wife, who is obstinately oblivious to my humor, style and compassion, and was surprised by her immediate reaction: "How did he get our address?" I'm sure Dick Cheney, in his undisclosed location, had no trouble finding our undisclosed location, I told her.
"GW Bush," as he signed the letter, was writing to congratulate me on hanging up my column after two decades at his favorite weekly sports magazine. "Dear Mr. Sports Illustrated," he began, consecrating me with a presidential nickname, like Turd Blossom or Pootie-Poot or the immortal Brownie. "I read...
I've put the letter away for now, back in its tattered envelope, where it will probably remain for the next 100 years, until some distant descendant has it appraised on Antiques Roadshow. However history judges this presidency, I'm confident it will be kind to me. "This was my...
The stark choices humans faced during the 1994 Rwandan genocide still rivet us. In this raw retelling, a priest (John Hurt) and a teacher (Hugh Dancy) must decide whether to stay and share the fate of 2,500 Tutsis, including a favorite pupil (Claire-Hope Ashley), who take refuge from...
Niccolò Machiavelli offered a famously dim view of human nature in The Prince. People are so "ungrateful, fickle, [and] false," he wrote, that a ruler should comfortably abandon conventional morality in dealing with them. He should slay deposed rulers and their families, recognize that friendship "yields nothing," and, beneath...