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...before Sunday morning would Hillary show any signs of where she had landed. It's possible that hatred can be a comfort when the alternative is grief. At least a part of her anger at her husband was not about lying or treachery but about handing their mortal enemy a weapon to use against them both. She had stood by her husband when his character was in question, for dodging the draft and whether he had inhaled, through Gennifer and Paula. But prior to Ken Starr, her own morals had never been questioned...
...their mouth; each will be asked about his childhood and diet, race relations and Monica Lewinsky. To hit 62, each man will have to want it so much that he can wall it all away. Yet if he seems to wall us out, we'll fix him with a mortal disdain that will outlast any record he can set. Even so, Griffey and McGwire could make it to the record and beyond, to that Elysian realm where a man seems to stand for something good about the nation and the age. They could achieve that titanic Ruthian grace because...
...minds drift back and forth between the sacred and the mundane: between our ideas, our myths about ourselves, on one hand, and on the other our everyday, mortal disorder, our contradictions, our injustices and our need for the law. In the borderland between the two realms we encounter the dangerous, interesting kingdom of lies...
...swish, a swoosh, the snick-snack-snick of dueling blades--the nice thing about swordplay is that it doesn't make a lot of noise. When cold steel is their weapon of choice, men can actually exchange snappy dialogue while engaging in mortal combat. Better still, when heroism and villainy go at it mano a mano, a certain clearly identifiable humanity as well as a certain cinematic grace and fluidity is imparted to their conflicts...
...hand. For glory, the walls of his airy Atlanta home are lined with gold and platinum records--the hits he's written and produced for such performers as Mariah Carey, TLC and Usher. For recreation, nestled about the den, he has half-a-dozen arcade-style video games--including Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter II. For work, tucked in a corner on the ground floor, he has a cozy but well-furbished home studio. Often, when staff members at So So Def, the record label he heads, hold meetings, Dupri doesn't even leave his house to attend, but calls...