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...mass loquacity. We are all writing it or at any rate talking it: the memoir, the apologia, the c.v., the cri de coeur. Nothing, for now, can compete with experience--so unanswerably authentic, and so liberally and democratically dispensed." Thus the modern appeal of the real: journalists pepper their reports with the pronoun I; historians focus on the lives of ordinary people rather than those of their rulers; and many literary scholars set aside the classics to study first-person testimonials of peasants and slaves...
Tragically, on July 1, after playing 71 cities in 15 countries, Bruce and the band will shut down their 1999-2000 reunion tour with the last of 10 sold-out Garden shows. Fearing serious withdrawal, I consulted relationship guru Pepper Schwartz, author of the forthcoming book Everything You Know About Love and Sex Is Wrong. "If Bruce is just one thing among a lot of other important things that you share," she said, "you'll handle this loss the same way you've handled other losses." (I didn't dare tell her about our beloved cat Clarence--named for Bruce...
...fences laced with razor wire (but without watch towers or sharpshooters) surround the center. Inside, there are no corrections officers, only "therapeutic assistants" who must guard the detainees using pepper spray, not guns. Whitsett roomed in an open "pod" with 15 bunks, not a cell. The staff offers intense psychological treatment but cannot force participation. The Jimmy Ryce Act is so constitutionally murky that Whitsett could not even be called an inmate. He was, rather, a "resident...
...Hughes told the Texas Governor that a state court had barred new DNA tests for McGinn--removing one of the last roadblocks to his execution the next day. As they rolled along under the hot Southwest sun, Bush called his legal counsel, Margaret Wilson, to review the matter. He peppered her with questions: Was DNA relevant? Could it prove whether McGinn had raped his stepdaughter? It would be conclusive, said Wilson. That was important: if McGinn was guilty of only murder but not rape, then under Texas law he would not necessarily have committed a capital crime. Bush went through...
...Besides, "a little salt-and-pepper" kept the place exciting, reported Bruce Harriman '50--a bomber captain in Europe who entered Harvard in the summer...