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...complex man--ironic and earnest, driven and fun-loving, self-assured and self-deprecating--but his concern with honor is like a golden thread woven through his remarkable life of service. In the cover story of our special Republican Convention issue, McCain's abiding concern with honor is the prism through which James Carney and Michael Grunwald look at the Republican presidential nominee. Carney, our Washington bureau chief, has covered both of McCain's presidential campaigns. He first encountered McCain during the Arizona Senator's antitobacco crusade of 1997. "He basically allowed me into every meeting and strategy session...
...Though Hooper does her best to empathize with the police, hers is not a book cops are likely to give as a present. For many readers, it will be hard to construct a prism through which police conduct in this story appears anything but deplorable. Two of the men dispatched to investigate Hurley were friends of his and dined with him the night after he was interviewed. Through their union, police exhibited little interest in the pursuit of truth, more a blind and vociferous loyalty to a colleague in strife. Between the inquest and the trial, Hooper observed their righteous...
...with an open mind, to listen and to learn.” But when he returned to Washington five days later, Reagan remained as set and predictable in his ways as he was before his departure. The President continues to see the region through a distorting East-West prism; countries are distinguished only by their allegiance to either capitalism or communism. The real problems of Latin America—the social, economic and political inequities that affect different nations in different ways—continue to be ignored. A tenuous case can be made that the Administration is taking...
...Ripper exhibit recounts the unsolved murders through the prism of life in Victorian Whitechapel, using photographs, police files and press reports to bring the era to life. It also shows how the Ripper's 11 victims - all alcoholics who turned to prostitution - were brought down by slum life before falling prey to a murderer. A police list of Catherine Eddowes' clothing and possessions is both mundane and poignant: A gray petticoat, "a very old ragged blue skirt," and a pair of men's lace-up boots...
...Having spent many hours on the ride in my California youth, I couldn't help but wonder how Disney would translate the message of "Small World" in an era so profoundly different - particularly at a theme park whose desired customers are those who see the world through the cultural prism not of the industrialized West, but of a rising Asia...