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...chapter written for the newly released paperback of his book on Diana, Andrew Morton states that the couple made a friendly agreement between themselves to separate. That pact did not survive stormy sessions with Charles' parents, who supposedly would love to see Diana go but resist any concessions. For instance, if a divorce were to occur, they would want her to give up her public work, which is genuinely dear to her. If she were to remarry, the royal family would want her to leave the country and her boys. It is doubtful that either the mother or the reputation...
...Clinton's face, in the slow droop of his jowls and in his Sisyphean struggles against the thickening of middle life. "I look at Clinton in his dumpy running shorts," sniffs marketing consultant Judith Langer. "He symbolizes the baby-boom generation: they think health, but they don't always resist that chocolate-chip cookie." In the waning days of the campaign, Clinton's reading glasses (for baby boomers the scariest word in the English language is suddenly bifocals) began to make a frequent appearance on the nightly news. As for the Vice President-elect, Al Gore, just 19 months Clinton...
...brigade crossed the finish line at the Garden State Racetrack as they drove into an exuberant fireworks-and-fanfare rally. As promised, the candidate shook hands -- hundreds of them -- and played a four-bar break on the saxophone with the Dovells, a local 1960s group. But Clinton could not resist speaking for five minutes. Before leaving the raceway, Clinton posed in the cold rain with a two-year-old trotter named Bubba Clinton, who had won a race earlier that week at the long-shot odds of 37 to 1. Asked what the horse had told him, Clinton said, "Just...
...have to opposing groups confront each other, however, is not very friendly. Even if the pro-choice groups do not shout and yell, they will no doubt be provoked by the pro-life groups. They will be called "baby killers" or worse. And it's difficult to resist responding to that kind of epithet...
...writers who have contributed to Malcolm X: In Our Own Image mostly resist playing this "What If?" game. Instead, these Black thinkers focus on the contemporary implications of Malcolm X's revolutionary thought. They question what America can do, without Malcolm, to bring about the still-elusive equality he fought for. The result is a fascinating and challenging book...