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The scene was remarkable: the President of the United States was about to be lectured on morality while a national television audience looked on. It unfolded in the White House Roosevelt Room, crowded with top Administration aides, some 30 Jewish leaders, a sprinkling of Senators and Congressmen. Reagan's deceptively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: V-E Day: A Misbegotten Trip Opens Old Wounds | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

It is the contention of Sterling Seagrave's compelling new book that the Soongs were, pre-eminently, a family in the Mario Puzo sense. Invoking the Borgias, the author portrays the clan as a gang of thieves most at home in the Wild East, a hugger-mugger underworld where dishes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Wild East | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

At least 50 Stava residents are believed to have lost their lives. Even harder hit was the tourist population, especially guests at three hotels, the Erika, the Stava and the Miramonti. All were crowded at the time, and it was originally feared that 95 children were among the victims when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: The Mountainside Exploded | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

Albums are inconsiderate things. To hear them, you need an hour's worth of your crowded life, not including the time it takes to penetrate the layers of security stickers. Singles, barely sold in record stores anymore but making up the vast majority of downloads, ask for only three good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: 10 Songs Worth at Least 99 Cents | 4/10/2005 | See Source »

Like most of Bellow's novels, Herzog was in essence Bellow's story: woman-crowded, it reflected his fractious marital and personal history. He married five times, engaged in spirited, sometimes acrimonious quarrels with his three sons, lovers, other writers, old friends. In order to write, he claimed, he needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saul Bellow: 1915-2005: Part Wise Man, Part Wiseguy | 4/10/2005 | See Source »

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