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Nearly all Dawidoff's sources agree that Berg was good company and an intriguing storyteller. He had been tangential to big events. He could talk politics, philosophy and sports. Babe Ruth was a pal, as were Nelson Rockefeller and Chico Marx. Eventually the reader comes to see Berg as a one- man March of Time...
...Adams: I don't remember Nelson Mandela renouncing violence or Arafat genuflecting. It's a two-way process to bring about a demilitarization, to get those involved in armed action to stop. No sane person wants to be engaged in violence. But to put preconditions on people prematurely only makes the situation more problematic. Sinn Fein doesn't advocate violence. We don't advocate armed struggle. We have suffered from the violence. I want to see an unarmed strategy. I want to see a situation where the I.R.A. ceases activities. But the people who are looking down their guns...
Along the way Navratilova revealed she was gay, became embroiled in spectacularly difficult relationships and displayed a knack for looking a bit foolish. Her affair with Judy Nelson came to an embarrassing end when Nelson sued her for palimony and the public was treated to their videotaped agreement. At another point she told her biographer that she wanted to have a child with hockey player Wayne Gretzky because the gene combination would produce a great athlete...
...Perhaps the boy felt his pain was not being taken seriously enough. Perhaps the medical team misread the young man's growing determination to choose his own fate. "Often when problems like this arise, there's a miasma of suspicion about families and how trustworthy they are," says James Nelson, a medical ethicist at the Hastings Center in New York. Someone from the Pittsburgh team decided to call the child-abuse hot line in Florida to try to force Benny to renew treatment, and the result was the awkward standoff. "That's the most distressing part to us," says Tzakis...
...South African government announced the formation of a "truth commission" to investigate acts of political violence committed in the past and to make recommendations on possible amnesties. In a separate move, President Nelson Mandela reduced the sentences of virtually all the country's inmates to try to quell rioting at half a dozen prisons...