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...said just weeks before the summit. "There has been too much violence; there has been too much pain and too much sorrow. It would not be responsible for us to sit back and not try to seize this moment." That obsession has meant a lot of traveling. He has flown abroad hundreds of times in search of peace. He has driven the region's embassies nuts, preferring to travel light and shunning the press, allowing no reporters to follow him and working without an advance schedule for his movements. A talented college basketball player at UCLA--and still a devoted...
With all the high-flown speechifying coming out of Congress last week, you would have thought the July 4th re-enactments had started early. "We struck a blow for freedom today," said G.O.P. Congressman Lindsey Graham. On the Senate floor, John McCain gave a similar fife-and-drum salute: "It is indeed a great day for democracy." The defeated foe: a proliferating breed of shadowy tax-exempt special-interest groups that must now disclose their political spending and donors. The patriot among patriots? McCain, who led the charge for the first successful effort to change campaign-finance laws in more...
Others in the crowd had got tickets beforehand and had flown in from as far away as California, while those who lined up outside the studio had only a 1 in 50 shot of scoring a seat at the taping. If they did indeed come for the camp, the show outdid itself, though the producers' efforts were sometimes a bit forced. The contest was held at the dance club Webster Hall, and the theme ingredient, Dungeness crab, was lowered from a disco ball. "Do they get the joke, or do they think it's serious?" asked Flay afterward. They hired...
...whole, more civilized than those whey-faced, bleary tribesmen back in New York (some of my own savage people, long ago) who were busy honoring their particular heritage by vomiting in the gutters outside the Blarney Stone on Third Avenue. This last weekend, I should have flown back to Papua New Guinea in honor of the National Puerto Rican Day Parade. Instead, I found myself accidentally in New York City. A mistake. The Puerto Rican Day parade in New York is as bad an advertisement for the Puerto Ricans as St. Patrick's Day is for the Irish...
With the odds thus stacked against me, I couldn't help being concerned. What does it mean when I'm introduced to three people as I enter a party and find that all their names have flown out of my head before I even reach the bean dip? What does it mean if I walk into a room on an errand of some kind and discover that I can't remember if I came in for a dictionary, a soup spoon or a socket wrench? After a certain age, does everyone's cranial zip disc start to fill...