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...those months, they spent about 90% of Dean’s waking hours together. And as America discovered Howard Dean, O’Mary learned more esoteric details, such as Dean’s obsession with collecting state quarters and his fondness for a certain kind of Wisconsin root beer...
...unlikely that Mr. Elihu Root will ever use or refer to his degree from the University of Bucnos Ayres, or from any one of the twenty-one other universities who have honored him with a degree. Nor does it seem likely that the University will lose much of its prestige or reputation through the accident which brings Gustavus Adolphus. Crown-Prince of Sweden, to Cambridge today instead of next Thursday. It is more a gesture than a service or a reward, it is a fitting part of the great American passion for gestures...
...Sonia's angry objections, Rajiv insisted that his duty to family and country obliged him to replace his brother as his mother's right-hand man. Then, in October 1984, Indira's Sikh bodyguards assassinated her to avenge the Indian army's storming of the Sikh Golden Temple to root out militants sheltered inside. In a hospital, over her mother-in-law's dead body, Sonia again begged Rajiv to put family before politics and, again, he refused. Said Sonia to an Indian journalist last month?only her second interview ever: "There was my mother-in-law's body, lying...
Jones explores Henry's life from every possible angle, restlessly following minor characters through love stories, comedies and epic quests, skipping across decades of time and continents of space--The Known World is a glorious, enthralling, tangled root ball of a book--but always returning to the story's tragic core. Slowly, terrifyingly, it dawns on us that although Henry has his free papers, he's the product of an evil world, and his soul will never be free. When it was published last summer, Jones' book seemed like a very mature first novel. With the benefit of eight months...
...viewpoint "The New Terrorist Threat" [March 22], former presidential security adviser Richard Clarke wrote, "[M]aybe we should be asking why the terrorists hate us." I wonder why this question is not raised more often. In my view, we can stop terrorism only if we get to its root causes. President Bush's war on terrorism will not eradicate the problem but nurture it. For every terrorist killed or arrested, a new one will emerge. We should drop all the rhetoric about the war on terrorism. Such a war cannot be won, as there is no clearly defined enemy...