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...think of him as a study in pathology. When he acknowledged to Winfrey that he had been abused as a child, he turned to the camera and said to his father, "I'm sorry. Please don't be mad at me." Jackson is still, everyone agrees, the world's oldest child star. If he could forgive and love the father who abused him, could he not forgive himself for bonding with the children who came into his Neverland bed? Could this lost boy even understand the difference between hugging and fondling, affection and assault, generosity and lechery...
...tend to be too little, too late. But in both cases, the rules are enshrined in international covenants, and steamrollering them showed that the same sort of hauteur is alive and well in all three capitals. Power talks, and so does the national interest; this is one of the oldest truths in international politics. In the American case, the victim was the authority of the United Nations; in the Franco-German case, the loser is Europe and its common currency. Britain and Sweden, the two most prominent outsiders, will now think thrice before joining the euro zone. Why allow others...
...team, he’s just a pleasure to be around, such a great kid,” Murphy says. “Well, it’s hard to say ‘kid’ because he’s our first married Harvard student and our oldest...
...Germany on Tuesday, archeologists announced the discovery of Europe’s oldest toothbrush. The bristles on the brush, which was found at the site of a former hospital in the western city of Minden, have rotted away, but the brush still boasts a 4-inch handle of animal bone carved at the other end into a tiny spoon believed to be used for cleaning out the owner’s ears...
Harvard’s oldest a cappella group takes the stage for their fall concert. This will be the gentlemen’s first public performance of the year. 8 p.m. Tickets $10; $7 students and seniors. Sanders Theatre...