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...Forum movement that led the popular rebellion against the communist regime in 1989, found the information in her dossier ludicrous. "I have never read so much boring nonsense," she said after viewing 25 folders, less than half her file. "If that was my life, then for heaven's sake what did they make...
True confessions from the artist on this ravishing live recording: she was once bothered by an overly enthusiastic fan named Dick, to whom she dedicates her lake-clear version of John Fogerty's lovely, lonesome Lodi, and she is a major admirer of Minnie Pearl. Well, land's sake, this album is full of surprises. Fans might not expect this strong and graceful singer to fall about over the comic antics of the dingbat with the price tag dangling off her hat, but if there's one thing EMMYLOU HARRIS excels at, it's surprise. And, at the same time...
...found that by a ratio of roughly 10 to 1, people were more troubled by Hart's lying than by his extramarital relations. How many people would reject Clinton if he were seen as telling the hard truth is anyone's guess. Some, perhaps too many for Clinton's sake, will apply a double standard that forgives adultery generally but still determines that a President is a role model from whom perfection should be demanded -- no matter that many of America's leaders have strayed without diminishing their effectiveness...
...world family, or ever likely to be; that the differences among races, nations, cultures and their various histories are at least as profound and as durable as the similarities; that these differences are not divagations from a European norm but structures eminently worth knowing about for their own sake. In the world that is coming, if you can't navigate difference...
...believed that what I did was for the greater sake of American education," she said, "[by forcing people] to grapple with ideas they don't like to confront...