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...be—Beethoven would die unmarried, and he knew it. So when his brother Casper became terminally ill, Beethoven pursued sole guardianship of Casper’s son Karl, much to the chagrin of the mother, Johanna. The composer drifted toward insanity, accusing Johanna of prostituting herself and convincing himself that Karl was in fact his own son. Johanna eventually hauled Beethoven into court, where witnesses testified about his incompetence as a guardian, and the court exposed his lack of nobility despite the Dutch predicate “van.” The composer was publicly humiliated...
...heal the trauma she experienced as a nurse in the Great War. Set in an era when women were grappling with modernity, Pardonable Lies, the third of this young series, sends Maisie on a quest for truth, during which secrets and lies lead instead to self-discovery. --By Johanna McGeary...
...again, with the whole world watching once more and by then hoping for more than just smiles and handshakes, will help concentrate the minds of Reagan and Gorbachev and their advisers, and force them to face some hard and historic choices. --By Evan Thomas. Reported by Laurence I. Barrett, Johanna McGeary and James O. Jackson/Geneva
...public opinion and, more important, for keeping alive the hope of a genuine arms-control breakthrough--to come up with a response as imaginative as Gorbachev's. In arms-control negotiations, skepticism is always necessary but rarely sufficient. --By George J. Church. Reported by James O. Jackson/Moscow and Johanna McGeary/Washington
...this month about his nuanced evasions on the Libyan disinformation effort, articulated this ethical fence-straddling last week when he told the New York Times, "I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest." Bernard Kalb chose a different route. --By John S. DeMott. Reported by David Beckwith and Johanna McGeary/Washington