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...plagued teapot of all her own. Two weeks ago, the trial of David F. Rosen, Sen. Clinton’s former fundraising director, began in Los Angeles. Rosen is charged with illegally underreporting the cost of a 2000 gala fundraiser, the Hollywood Gala Salute to William Jefferson Clinton, which f??ªted the outgoing president and reportedly raised over $1 million for his wife’s campaign for the Senate. As conservative activist groups, such as the United States Justice Foundation, contemplate ways to use Rosen’s trial as a means to torpedo Sen. Clinton?...
...even as she was f??ªted by the literary establishment, Kumin maintained an activist—even rebellious—streak. In November 1998, she and Carolyn Kizer resigned as chancellors of the American Academy of Poets (AAP) to protest the absence of blacks and other minorities on the academy’s 12-member board...
...F??hrer never shuts up. He comes across as the century's greatest over-achiever, a man so tormented by fear and disappointment that he rewrites history as a Wagnerian drama to give meaning to his empty life. "How very much I too would like to have a family, children, children! Oh, God, you know how much I love children . . . But I have to deny myself this happiness. I have another bride--Germany! I am married: to the German Volk. " This high-minded sentimentality contrasts grotesquely with private reality. The extent of Hitler's love affair with his niece Geli...
Wagener seems unable to make this distinction. He mistakes Hitler's flights of quasi-history and pseudo science for higher truth. It is a form of mental alchemy that confuses metaphor with fact. Somewhere in the F??hrer's murky idea of Europe's gene pool, the Volk await a new golden age. But first he must burn away the dross of Bolshevism and Jewry. The verbiage grows wild and the mind bloats. Wagener's unintended legacy is a lesson on how a haunted medieval mind could effectively debase reason in the name of reason. --By R.Z. Sheppard
...executive committee of Tanzania's sole political party, the Chama Cha Mapinduzi, or Revolutionary Party. He will run unopposed in popular elections scheduled for this week. Meanwhile, in other parts of Africa, voters in the Ivory Coast (pop. 10 million) are expected this week to endorse 80-year-old F??lix Houphouët-Boigny's uncontested bid for a sixth five-year term as President. In Liberia (pop. 2 million), however, opposition politicians continue to allege fraud in the recent balloting that President Samuel K. Doe, a former army sergeant who first came to power in a 1980 coup, says...