Word: crisises
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jimmy Carter, former U.S. President Skinny: It's his turn--Camp David accords; North Korean crisis solving; African humanitarian work, plus all those Habitats for Humanity ODDS 3-1
He radiates intelligence. Even through a translator, he makes Marxism-Leninism seem a living, exciting thing. He is responsible for the spiritual and ideological well-being of 1.3 billion Chinese (a flock that, in status-obsessed China, would make him 30% more powerful than the Pope of Catholicism). As director...
By then the crisis had spread inside the autonomous region. Things were becoming very serious. When the Chinese came to receive me in Lhasa, they said that I should tell my people not to join the rebels. It was very difficult. On one side there were the Tibetans who were...
And this is exactly what the Pulitzer-prizewinning journalist has done. With her new book, Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man (Morrow; 662 pages; $27.50), we meet men on the edge and over the edge: porn stars, hyperfanatical sports fans, wife beaters, gang bangers, a battle-weary parade of...
True belief led us to the Cuban missile crisis, while the post-Watergate era allows us to divest emotionally from our government so it can do important work on campaign-finance reform. And skepticism without irony is totally unfun. It leads to folk songs.