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...letter to friends, when Ron and I were in our 20s, my father wrote casually about my songwriting and occasional television roles, and about Ron's decision to become a ballet dancer. He kept to the smooth surface--a parent passing along news of his kids. He didn't divulge that our relationship was strained because I was living with my boyfriend, or that Ron's career choice had caused some bewilderment (it wasn't prejudice on my father's part, just that Midwestern boy showing through--guys in his town never wore tights). Like the accomplished swimmer...
...weight of my father's life in letters is heavy, but the lightness of his spirit and the easy way of his heart are evident throughout. In a letter addressed to me when I was still a baby, he wrote, "There were no 'Northern Lights' last night but there was a big moon and a sky full of stars shining down on the glaciers and snow covered peaks. It was a beautiful night with a constant breeze that seems to come from out among the stars and it seems at times that if you listen very carefully it will whisper...
COVER: Reagan photograph by Alain Keler--Corbis Sygma. Letter: Ronald Reagan Library INSET: Matthias Clamer for TIME...
...collateral amusements of General Wesley Clark's nascent presidential candidacy was the unseemly rush of certain liberals to embrace a member of the U.S. Army after decades of knee-jerk loathing for all things military. In an open letter encouraging Clark to run, Michael Moore, the fastidiously unkempt left-wing documentarian, wrote, "Michael Moore likes a general? I never thought I'd write those words. But desperate times call for desperate measures." Wonder what Moore thinks now, after Clark spent the first days of his campaign stepping all over his epaulets on the most basic question of the coming election...
After reading a report earlier this month that Harvard administrators were considering moving the Quad dormitories to Allston, Undergraduate Council President Rohit Chopra ’04 dashed off a letter to one of his friends—Cambridge Mayor Michael A. Sullivan...