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...Tuesday, but not even the most optimistic gambler would bet on his beating Sharon on election day. Come Wednesday, all stakeholders in the Middle East peace process will likely have to digest the reality that Israel's new leader is a man dedicated to reversing what he considered the reckless peacemaking efforts of his predecessor...
...money" is in fact an unintended consequence of the post-Watergate contribution limits lauded by the editors (Editorial,"Bring Reform to the Floor," Jan. 5). Because donors cannot give all they would like to candidates, money is given to parties as well as independent organizations, many of which sponsor reckless ads for which candidates remain unaccountable...
...providing pastoral counseling to the White House's resident adulterer, he was carrying on an extramarital affair of his own, with a subordinate who later gave birth to his child. Focus instead on his stupidity: How could the nation's premier civil rights leader have been so reckless? Of course, that's the same question everybody was asking about Bill Clinton in 1998. But at least Clinton isn't a minister...
...memoirs, really, but an invitation to rubberneck at the multicar pileups in someone else's life? Rebecca Walker's foray into the genre, Black, White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self (Riverhead Books; 320 pages; $23.95), is plenty gapeworthy. Her book teems with childhood wreckage: premature sex, reckless drug experimentation, the end of her parents' interracial marriage, and her own consistently tenuous relationships born of desperation. Interwoven are heartrending but barbed recollections of absent, distracted parents--a self-absorbed mother, writer Alice Walker, who hires someone to take her daughter clothes shopping because she is "too busy...
...politics, freely intertwines writings on each field in Double Trouble: some essays deal solely with Clinton, some just with music, often musical subjects totally unrelated to Elvis. Pieces on Dylan, Kurt Cobain, Kenneth Starr and Hillary are especially insightful, and are treated with uniformly graceful prose and pleasantly reckless extensions of metaphors. In Marcus's world, the political and the sensational are one, and so they deserve the same critics and the same vocabulary...