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...learned the lesson: politics makes a big difference. I continued to believe that my most effective role was to bear witness as fairly as I could. But despite my best efforts trying to decode Washington for The L.A. Times and then The Wall Street Journal and "Washington Week in Review," I found myself trapped as a member of the White House press corps. The facts simply didn't seem to matter anymore; the public cared more about myths and personalities. I didn't get my satisfaction from the political process the way others seemed to. The results were too transient...
...faculty's vote came during the same week that The New Republic reported a rumor that Ogletree had not actually authored an article published under his name in the Harvard Law Review's 1993 issue...
...convinced that right-wing zealots in his department's elite intelligence unit were involved in the assassination. "Conspiracy?" he says. "You bet your bottom dollar there was a conspiracy." Several celebrities, including Norman Mailer and historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., have petitioned a Los Angeles County grand jury to review the L.A.P.D.'s investigation of the younger Kennedy's killing. Alas, considering how much evidence has disappeared, it is an open question whether such a probe would resolve old doubts -- or create new ones...
Author of six novels, seven volumes of poetry and numerous essays and short critical studies, Erica Jong has a reputation for controversy--a reputation Erica Jong on Henry Miller: The Devil at Large will certainly bolster. The New York Times Book Review has already declared the book, Jong's first full-length work of non-fiction, "silly," and Jong's descriptions of Miller as a "prophet" who "invented a new style of writing" and "forever changed the way American literature would be written" will surely inspire debate elsewhere...
Other men like Professor Harvey "keep 'embarefoot and pregnant" Mansfield, seem to have trouble adjusting to the new state of affairs. In an observation which strains credulity, Mansfield recently declared in The Harvard Review of Philosophy that "Women like to have babies That's why they do. "Is it possible that Professor Mansfield still doesn...