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What wasn't presaged by even the most knowing, most inside, most keen-nosed Olympics hound was that, more than three years before any torch lighting, the head of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee--a fine Mormon he was--would be brought down by a spousal-abuse charge, and his successor and others would fall in a huge, still widening bribery scandal. Salt Lake City wanted to hot up its image for the Olympics, and today it has no worries...
Brownback got a lump in his throat two weeks ago when he raised his right hand and swore "to do impartial justice." It's the President of the U.S., he thought. This is serious. "But I had a keen sense of sadness too," he recalled later. "You tell your kids not to do things that are wrong, but whatever they do, you tell them, 'Don't lie about it.' Americans all over the country say that every day to their kids. That's the reason we're here. That's the reason the Chief Justice is here, 100 Senators...
...Senate trial in a way that commands bipartisan respect. "He's perfect for this job," says Stephen Gillers, a professor at New York University school of law. "He'll behave with all the politesse and decorum of a visitor in someone else's house. He has a keen sense of place." But if Rehnquist finds his unusual role less than appealing, he has himself partly to blame. When Clinton petitioned the court to defer the Paula Jones case until after his presidency, Rehnquist joined the other Justices in ruling that "it appears to us highly unlikely to occupy any substantial...
...been going to a therapist every week since 1991, and plans on continuing long after Woody Allen is cured. Why not, he explains, if it helps him? And why shouldn't his ex-wife hug him after his record-breaking home run? "No divorce is ever peachy keen. But Kathy and I are two grown adults," he says--not only the largest man to say peachy keen but also probably the last...
...FULL Tom Wolfe's long-awaited successor to The Bonfire of the Vanities lives up to all the hype, and then some. It is big (742 pages), crammed with the author's keen and boisterous prose and encyclopedic in its scope. Wolfe believes that novels can still show us the way we live now. His version of a cross section of today's Atlanta proves that his novels certainly...