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...week's news of personal finance, health and technology. The section has been a hit with our subscribers and our peers, who recently awarded national prizes to two of our columnists for excellence in service journalism and commentary. And this week we're expanding Personal Time with a fourth page called Your Family...
...only trouble is, if anyone's losing touch, it's me. The most striking thing about our culture, to an outsider today, may be that Harold Bloom's 745-page scholarly exegesis of Shakespeare's plays is on the best-seller list (joining a history of the makers of the Oxford English Dictionary), and an updated version of Les Liaisons Dangereuses is at the cineplex. In certain respects the country around us seems to be dumbing up, presenting us on a daily basis with texts and thoughts that give no indication of a nation suffering from attention deficit disorder...
Washington, March 28, 2001--In the view of some analysts here, when a front-page New York Times story reported in March 1999 that Elizabeth Dole "prepares so thoroughly for appearances that she even requires aides to count the steps she must take to the podium," it should have been obvious that a Dole presidency could include just the sort of unfortunate incident that occurred in Quincy, Ill., last week. As a veteran politician put it, "When you elect someone with a step counter on her staff, you should know that what you're definitely not getting is devil...
...Cynthia Sylvia Stout (who "would not take the garbage out"). He also wrote the lyrics to several hits, including Cover of "Rolling Stone" and A Boy Named Sue, and nine plays, often working in conjunction with David Mamet. DIED. MEG GREENFIELD, 68, longtime editor of the Washington Post editorial page and Newsweek columnist; of cancer; in Washington (see EULOGY...
...late 1970s, when I was writing columns and editorials for the Washington Post, MEG GREENFIELD had just been appointed editorial-page editor. She was canny enough to assign me only those editorials that required no thought or knowledge; when a golfer in Maryland murdered a goose that had interfered with his game, the piece was my meat. I wrote the goose editorial on deadline, and rushing past Meg's desk, I shouted, "What should I call this?" Without looking up, she shot back, "'Honk If You Think He's Guilty...