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The Hollywood director and the suburban-Connecticut teenager exchanged handwritten letters once a month for two years. Byrne Fields learned to drive; Hughes made Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Byrne Fields and her mother moved in with her stepfather; Hughes sent her the script for his new film, Pretty in...
Whether intentionally or coincidentally, thank you for running two different but parallel pieces in the same issue: Leslie Gelb's "Remembrance: Robert McNamara" and your cover story on Afghanistan. Both articles mirror each other in thought and tone and express hope for American efforts in ongoing quagmires. Gelb and McChrystal...
I agree with much of this. We have learned in the last 20 years that there are many ways of being modern, and that Western liberal democracy is but one of them. But that little collection of essays on the great equations reminds us that a society's characteristics today...
The BNP and its ilk bear out P.T. Barnum's aphorism that there is no such thing as bad publicity. Modern right-wing parties are smart enough to know that every criticism, every scandal, every court case, every article - including this one - is liable to send visitors to their websites...
The famous Cindy Sheehan—who holds George W. Bush personally responsible for the death of her soldier son—learned this the hard way when she came to town earlier this summer to stir up her usual ruckus outside the former president’s new Dallas...