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...Robin from leukemia in 1953. But when it comes time to sum up what this tragedy meant to him, all Bush chooses to offer is the flat observation, "To this day, like every parent who has ever lost a child, we wonder why." One mentions this incident not to fault Bush but to highlight the difficulties in trying to assess the meaning of life experiences. No one can write about Bob Dole without discussing his withered right arm and the three years he spent in military hospitals recovering from his war wounds. But reporters with no better qualifications than...
...York Times finds it appropriate these days to include, in a profile of the new Secretary of Defense, observations about his tennis game, then one can only imagine the gossip less restrained newspapers might turn into banner headlines. "CARLUCCI THROWS RACKET AT WIFE: Cites Stupid Double Fault," perhaps...
Inevitably, that message reaches the ears of women as well as men, inverting the victim and the criminal in domestic violence. Says Charlotte Fedders: "There are women who are taught that marriage is forever, who feel guilty when they are beated and think it's their fault because this doesn't happen to good people or rich people or successful people." Battered wives with low self-esteem who are given the impression that they bear some responsibility for their own beatings are not likely to file charges or leave their husbands. And then wife-beating will remain...
...experience attests to the perpetuation of antiquated sex roles. John Fedders was entitled to no more support from his wife than she was from him. If Fedders attacked Fedders with a weapon (he's big, remember) for not comforting her, would a judge have ruled that he was at fault and then grant her a share of the profits from his book...
...sometimes Machiavellian atmosphere of official Washington, Powell is the beneficiary of a rare commodity: universal acclaim. "Loyal almost to a fault," says former Under Secretary of Defense Richard DeLauer. "He's just super to have around," gushes another Defense Department aide. "Powell has become quite well known to the President and the chief of staff," says a White House aide. "They like...