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Dealing in this world takes a man who believes in the right principles, Nixon says, but a man who also has "street smarts" and "can play every trick ... We want him skillful, shrewd and as tough in the clutch as the other guy. The presidents of the top 50 or...
What Carter has failed to do is explore the minds and manners of the men and women in power. Lyndon Johnson had a novelist's sensitivity. "Watch their eyes, watch their hands," he told his staff.
As Ralph Hone reveals in his biography of Sayers, she was eccentric, private and opinionated ("Everything she said was a statement, almost an edict," a friend testified). Her minister father began to teach her Latin when Dorothy was barely seven. Her talent for languages lingered: in 1915 she took first...
On the other side, there were a few people who called themselves heterosexual who managed to come to the dance and enjoy it for what it was. We thank them for their good manners.
Attorney General Charles Njonjo, who drafted the bill, is personally opposed to polygamy on the ground that it is "a luxury and too expensive." His compromise marriage law was designed to be more acceptable to Kenya's parliamentarians, the majority of whom are polygamists. Even so, many of them...