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...faux Adams will be piped into the White House by the Army's fife and drums. Historian David McCullough, who is finishing a book on the difficult relationship between Adams and Thomas Jefferson, will deliver a brief address on the meaning of the moment. If President Bill Clinton is not out campaigning, he will add remarks for any and all citizens who want to stop by and listen from the front lawn and Lafayette Park, just like they did two centuries...
...accompanied his grandfather around Washington were eventually succeeded by the realization that he lacked the temperament to achieve such power himself. That is why his sympathy in his political novels goes out to history's losers, starting with Burr - betrayed, in Vidal's retelling, by the coldly ambitious Thomas Jefferson - all the way up to Adlai Stevenson, who twice played Hamlet to Dwight D. Eisenhower's Henry V. "Yes," Sanford notes in "The Golden Age," "he couldn't make up his mind but at least he had one to make...
...worthy people are destined for defeat, what does that make of the winners? This question hums throughout Vidal's historical series, particularly as it applies to the biggest winners, U.S. presidents. Burr casts both Jefferson and George Washington in a harsh light. "Lincoln" portrays its protagonist as almost diabolically unknowable in his use of power; "Empire" makes merry with the boisterously ambitious Theodore Roosevelt. Vidal's fiction strives mightily to transform the faces on the Mount Rushmore monument into rubble and scree...
...face is everywhere, endorsing electronic appliances, soft drinks and an airline. When the team travels the league circuit, squealing fans swarm around him. "I've never seen anything like it," says American teammate Reggie Jefferson. "He's like a rock star." Around the Lions clubhouse, there is even some grumbling that Matsuzaka is being spoiled. Last year, when the other Lions players were in fall training camp, Matsuzaka was treated to a trip to the American World Series in New York City. "I think the team is in danger of ruining him with all this special treatment," says a team...
...ball a full three seconds above his head?and a big kick. "He's the real thing," says Tuffy Rhodes, an ex-major leaguer now playing in Japan for the professional Kintetsu Buffaloes. "He could win 10 or 12 games a year now in the majors." Says teammate Jefferson: "He's a phenom, one of those rare guys who can dominate and win a game...