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...McCarver and another of his sworn enemies, Spike Lee. But there's also a nice tribute to his father and a song that asks you to "respect your woman." There's even a track called Heidy Heidy Hey, which probably has the recently deceased Mr. Calloway stirring in his grave. Prime Time, you see, can't sing. He can just play...
...brisk and unromantic. It is where many readers first encountered a young woman seduced by an attractive stranger without suffering any ill effect. At a time when the heavy moral lifting was thought best left to men, Arendt bench-pressed the weight of the world in books with such grave titles as The Origins of Totalitarianism, The Human Condition and The Life of the Mind. Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963) gave the world a deeply disturbing concept, "the banality of evil." "Who does she think she is, Aristotle?" cracked an editor at Partisan Review...
...Social Security payments, or various other benefits. So the increasingly "democratic" face of interest groups means the American government is asked to pay more, which means finally Americans of all classes are too. And the ultimate cost could be larger still. The budget deficit is not only a grave problem in itself, a theft of resources from the next generation, but also one reason politicians feel too strapped for cash to earnestly confront the other leading contender for gravest problem: the existence of an urban underclass. This sort of predicament is what the Founders designed representative democracy to solve. "They...
Clinton had no sooner returned to Little Rock from his hunting trip than he changed clothes and headed off again for the two-hour drive to Hope. For 15 minutes he stood alone at his mother's grave. Then he headed to a nearby hospital, where his 90-year-old great uncle, Oren ("Buddy") Grisham, was ailing and near death. The next day he flew back to Washington, his "batteries recharged" and his "roots watered...
What's wrong with this picture? Mexico's currency crash had just spoiled the first anniversary of the North American Free Trade Agreement, and there sat Ross Perot, looking very, very grave. "I do not want to be vindicated," the prophet of post-NAFTA doom told one newspaper reporter. "I would like to be wrong...