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...Willey evidence than the very audience the White House worried about most: middle-class women. The strategy was so successful, it briefly allowed the White House to focus more on Clinton's legal troubles than his political ones, and consider introducing, under seal, evidence of Jones' sexual behavior to counter her new claims of suffering "sexual aversion." But within hours of the plan's leaking, the furor convinced Bennett that it would be better to hold his fire...
What sets Eritrea apart is the self-sacrificing character of its people, the thousands like Olga Haptemariam who rely solely on their own gumption. We meet her behind the counter of the building-supply shop she has opened in Massawa, striving to capitalize on the construction boom resuscitating this shattered equatorial port. "It's my own business," she says, pointing to the stacked cans of paint and tools lining the shelves. "It is doing very well, very nice." She can't wait to expand. "When I get more money, I want to get more materials from Italy, China...
...South is an ugly, heroic American story that ended, officially at least, with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In The Children (Random House; 783 pages; $29.95), David Halberstam takes up the narrative in early 1960, with the lunch-counter sit-ins in Greensboro, N.C., and Nashville, Tenn., that were the debut of a new civil rights generation, most of whose members were younger by five or 10 years than Martin Luther King Jr. and frustrated by the lack of change in the years after the Brown decision...
Halberstam covered the sit-ins as a 25-year-old reporter for the Nashville Tennessean. As he writes, "I knew in some instinctive way from the first time I watched the young people walk from Kelly Miller Smith's church to the Woolworth's counter that I was watching the beginning of something historic." Halberstam went on to the New York Times and to Vietnam, where his reporting on the early stages of the war won a Pulitzer Prize in 1964. But over the years, he kept up with John Lewis, Marion Barry, Jim Lawson, James Bevel, Diane Nash...
...ticket for the film adaptation of E.M. Forster's Eternal Moment, he purchases one for a silly teen movie titled Hotpants College II. Giles' attention drifts until he spots the mesmerizing visage of Ronnie Bostock. Ronnie has just been doused with ketchup and lies strewn across a diner counter in a pose that reminds the well-educated Giles of the Pre-Raphaelite painting of the death of Chatterton. From this pivotal point onwards the movie focuses around Gilesi unceasing fixation with Ronnie...