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...then, once he had bullied and cajoled and converted his colleagues, he would have to do something even harder. He would have to trust them. And that's what finally happened last Wednesday afternoon, when a big, messy coalition of reformers from both parties gathered in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Room to decide whether to hold hands and jump off the cliff together. As McCain entered the summit early Wednesday afternoon, the size of his gamble scared him, and he wondered if he'd misplaced his faith. "When I walked in that room and sat down, I didn't think...
...black woman author in America today, her language and ideas powerful enough to prompt critics to place her among the ranks of the greatest English writers ever. (“Only Shakespeare rivals her for the number of senior theses devoted to her work,” Professor Barbara Johnson quipped when introducing Morrison.) Morrison is without a doubt the preeminent black woman author in America today. Go back and re-read that sentence. Then subtract the two words before “author.” Few people would argue the veracity of the statement, but Morrison would rather...
...exaggeration to say that Morrison is the most celebrated author in the United States," said Literature concentration chair Barbara Johnson, who introduced the author. "Only Shakespeare rivals her for the number of senior theses written about her work...
HOSPITALIZED. BILL JOHNSON, 40, Olympic downhill-skiing champion in 1984 and the first American man to win a World Cup downhill race; in a coma after crashing face-first on icy slopes at about 45 m.p.h.; in Whitefish, Mont. Johnson was attempting to stage a comeback and remake the Olympic team 17 years after winning gold in Sarajevo...
...world has seen military flare-ups in these parts before. In 1983, to the north, a Soviet fighter downed a Korean airliner that strayed into Soviet airspace, killing all 269 aboard. And Saturday's mid-air collision occurred just outside the Gulf of Tonkin, where in 1964 President Johnson used a skirmish involving the USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy as a pretext for launching air strikes against North Vietnam, beginning what came to be known as the Vietnam...