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"There was not a lot of confidence in the probity of the White House," says one. "There was a long experience with its not being forthcoming and truthful." Starr claims the experience didn't change him, but the evidence contradicts him, and so do many of his friends and allies...
The decision initially produced a reversal of scenes played out years ago, when black players began breaking into white-dominated athletics. "The guys played me harder," Meriwether says. "Everybody called me 'white boy,' and I took a lot of elbows." But Meriwether, an easygoing kid who talks as if he...
"Edo" was both a place and a time frame. It was the old name of the city we call Tokyo, and "Edo period" denotes the 2 1/2 centuries during which an absolute regime, founded there in the early 17th century by the military lord, or shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu, ruled over...
I see my first wild monkey, a squirrel monkey, small and elfin-faced. One hears a monkey in order to see it: it rustles branches or drops a piece of fruit. One's senses grow keener after a while; the idea of coming to one's senses takes on new...
The calculation behind Starr's interview was painfully transparent even in his dress: casual-Friday blazer and open-necked plaid sport shirt, chosen as if to say, "You know me. I'm just the kind of apple-cheeked suburban dad you might see shopping for ugly sweaters down at the...