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...allowed. The Republicans could use arguments like “Is America ready for…?” without being called racist or sexist. They could critique Rev. Wright more strongly and scrutinize Hillary Clinton’s reaction to her husband’s relationship with Monica Lewinski. The Democrats’ response that these Republican-driven criticisms are steeped in racism and misogyny will fall short, because the Republican Party will have a black person and a woman—all in one—on the ballot. In this way, Rice will be a grand foil...
...flooding through Venice. Four feet of water overflowed the Piazza San Marco. Yet according to Peter Lauritzen in Venice Preserved (Adler & Adler; 176 pages; $29.95), the deluge bore good fortune. It helped to jolt the world into rescuing Venice from nearly two centuries of decay and depredation. Photographers Jorge Lewinski and Mayotte Magnus record the resurrection of the city. Lauritzen combines a sure hand for history with a light satirical touch for the bureaucracy of restoration...
...Some things never change. Both Leno and Letterman took a pass on Karla Faye, preferring instead to do their silliloquies on what Letterman has been calling "The Monica Lewinski White House Sex Scandal Gate." Among Dave's throw-aways: "While you were having sex" pink message pads from the Oval Office...
...ciphers were supposedly uncrackable. But a Polish Jew named Richard Lewinski, who had worked in the Enigma factory before fleeing Germany, succeeded in duplicating the gadget from memory and sold it to the English...
Died. Fritz Erich von Lewinski von Manstein, 85, the armored-warfare strategist who masterminded Germany's blitzkrieg against France in 1940; of a heart attack; in Irschenhausen, West Germany. Von Manstein was named a field marshal by Hitler in 1942 for his victories in the Crimean campaign against the Soviets and dismissed two years later for advocating a strategy of retreat from Stalingrad. Tried by the British, he was imprisoned for war crimes. Upon his release, he became a consultant to the West German government, advocating a citizens' army with universal conscription for his country in the postwar...