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Except for that brief period when J.Lo wore a table cloth to the Grammys and the cognoscenti kept talking about the greatness of celebrating a “real lady” with “real curves,” American culture has been sexualizing women who look as...
Chris Patten's always been a busy man: former chairman of Britain's Conservative Party, Governor of Hong Kong, Europe's External Relations Commissioner. At 61, he's in the House of Lords and chancellor of Oxford University. Now he's published Not Quite the Diplomat, a learned romp through...
Perhaps this is because Lincoln tempered his depressive episodes as a public figure and older man. But the reader is left with the impression that many qualities separate from Lincoln’s depression—including his persistence and his famous lack of malice toward the South?...
And his book adds another nuance to our romanticized portrait of the Illinois Rail-Splitter. But the argument that Lincoln’s mental condition was central to his greatness loses steam.
To some intellectuals, Lenin's corpse pales in comparison with the crises facing Russia, such as growing authoritarianism and Chechnya. "I hate Lenin," says human-rights activist Lev Ponomarev. "But this latest idiocy doesn't interest me. The state is rebuilding its repressive machinery, and we are discussing Lenin's...