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...never fit in. When other students swooned over the Beatles, I called their reaction an ISP--interesting sociological phenomenon. I wanted to participate but did not know how. I had a few friends who were interested in the same things I was, such as skiing and riding horses. But friendship always revolved around what I did rather than...
...this is not just any friendship. It is also a fair specimen of passive aggression. Schiller, 65, has been treated for years as a world-historical ambulance chaser. A onetime photojournalist, he has made a career of tracking down the people involved in the great public squalors of our time--the Kennedy assassination, the Manson murders, the O.J. Simpson trial--then fashioning their stories into books and TV movies that he directs. He got Jack Ruby's deathbed interview. He co-wrote Simpson's self-serving jailhouse book, I Want to Tell You. For many of those years, Mailer...
...Erica over lunch. She was so quirky and honest—magnetic, really—and she made me feel at home, like I really belonged here. Erica was the type of friend who actually listened to you when you spoke. She laughed with her whole body. Though my friendship with Erica was brief, I credit her with changing my entire perspective on this school, no small feat. It seemed magical at the time, but after meeting Erica, everything in my life started to fall into place. I realize now that it was not magic but rather the power that...
...many Palestinian women and children must die at the hands of an Israeli gun, bulldozer or U.S.-supplied Apache helicopter-gunship before Americans begin to take Israel to task? Israel is, of course, a friend and ally to America, but there ought to be limits on what our friendship must endure...
...always been very curious about culture, how a society develops its own equilibrium. I realized we were out of equilibrium at some point. We had reached a period in terms of our society of not having a mythology, a code that you pass down to the next generation. Friendship is valuable, honor is valuable. There wasn't a movie genre like that aimed at younger people, the 12-year-olds coming...