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Donald's biography is at its best when recounting details like this. His style is factual and largely objective. As he states, his intention is to "explain rather than to judge." Donald's style disappoints only at the most significant and emotional points in Lincoln's life. For example, when Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg address, Donald does not reprint the speech, even though it is only 272 words long...
Harvard officials declined to explain yesterday why the rape had not been reported to the Harvard community until yesterday--more than one month after it occurred...
...principles. In a Wall Street Journal essay, Gingrich booster and political augurist Arianna Huffington called Clinton a "counterfeit" and Dole a "composite--a collage of positions determined by polling data and focus groups," and predicted that in a matchup, the counterfeit would win. The idea of that choice helps explain why voters tired of gamey party politics ache for the only candidate who has yet to say whether he belongs to a party...
...DAYS LAST WEEK, THREE OF Bill Clinton's top national-security advisers trudged up the steps of the U.S. Capitol and tried to explain to Congress why the White House wants to send up to 20,000 American soldiers to Bosnia. The Senators who listened had plenty of questions for the President's emissaries. Some of the queries were pointed, others acerbic, a few downright hostile. One, however, stood out for the succinctness with which it cut to the heart of the matter. It came from Oklahoma Republican Senator James Inhofe, who is known for making crisp and at times...
...night after night" and suggests that the pertinent thing about the Bulls' signature triangle offense is that it "embodies the Zen Christian attitude of selfless awareness." Norris' book, The Secret Power Within, his second contribution to the Zen genre, will be out next February. In it he'll explain the personal meditation technique that helped him kick in all those faces onscreen...