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...wants American politics to be all bitterness. There ought to be a happy middle ground between we're-all-friends and I-hate-you. But if you had to choose on the basis of raw honesty, there's a good case for the latter...
...first the Skakels cooperated with police. Tommy told them he was home by 9:30 and writing a paper on Abraham Lincoln. Michael, who said he had been visiting cousins in the latter part of the evening, was not a suspect. Kenneth Littleton, then 23, a tutor for the boys, was suspected briefly and gave testimony. But within a year, the Skakels stopped cooperating. No charges were filed, and the case languished for 16 years...
...died. The passenger who was went home from the hospital right away. Not buckling up on a day when the roads were icy was obviously foolish. I don't know if this was the way he drove or if he just forgot. I really hope it's not the latter--that would be too cruel...
...something else. Gates is widely viewed as the man who paved the road of the new American entrepreneurship, and this life transition at 40 may be his latest innovation, detailing the way new money forges its legacy. In an age when health-care advances deliver longer life spans, latter-day tycoons have become more concerned with how they'll be thought of once their working days are behind them. By contrast, Henry Ford, the symbol of innovation and entrepreneurship in the first half of the American Century, waited until his 70s to become charitable. Ford, accused of both racism...
...question is: did the photographer/editor mean the cropping to be a mischievous reference to Bush's steady invocations of Christ on the campaign trail, did he mean it to be a positive commentary on the Republican front-runner, or was it just a coincidence? If it was the latter, let's hope it's the last. Religious imagery and rhetoric in politics are alarming both because of the moral superiority implied by candidates who eagerly proclaim their faith and because of the time devoted to exclusionary religious discussion which should be spent on policy issues that matter to voters regardless...