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...Alan Alda and Robert Sean Leonard; Becket, with Derek Jacobi as the saintly bishop and Robert Lindsay as his carousing King; Tartuffe, with Paul Eddington as the dithery paterfamilias turned acolyte to a charlatan and Felicity Kendal as the saucy, commonsensical maid in a cheerily broad staging, almost willfully devoid of undertone or relevance, by Sir Peter Hall, founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company...
...story is devoid of scandal and full of heroism. As part of the elite Navy Sea, Air and Land corps (the SEALs), Kerrey got his leg blown off in one exchange but still managed to call for support and command his troops. (Nyhan really loves this story. So does everyone else. You'll hear it about a thousand times over the next 13 months.) He got a Congressional Medal of Honor for it, but he initially turned it down. No kidding. He accepted it later on behalf of his platoon...
WHAT A DIFFERENCE a war can make. Before the allied bombing of Iraq began, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir seemed destined never to win any popularity contests. Devoid of charisma, stubborn and introverted, the Prime Minister often provoked yawns in Israel and a feeling of anxiety in Washington...
...sixtyish minor-league batting coach nursing a fearsome hangover and brooding that his young disciples "don't know who I am, what stats I put on the board." Lamb himself, used to sparking conversations with tales of his globe-trotting adventures, quickly discovers that baseball is a closed universe devoid of curiosity about life beyond the base lines. "The players viewed me with % studied indifference," he writes. "Baseball was the only common denominator of discussion, and the older a player was, the more uncomfortable he became talking about topics other than himself...
Just 25 years ago, such stark legal reasoning was virtually unknown in modern American jurisprudence. Punishment was meted out because of the nature of the crime, devoid of any reference to the social identity of the victim. But since then, compassion and political calculation have combined to transform crime victims and their advocates into a potent lobbying force...