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...were destined to fight it the second we founded our country. The man who wrote the sentence of the Declaration that begins, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal," owned more than 100 human beings. It is, as the great historian Shelby Foote said, "the crossroads of our being...
...Branch recorded a secret and "unique, verbatim record" of Clinton's presidency, meant to serve posterity. At the end of each conversation, Branch would hand over his cassettes to Clinton--and then record his observations and recollections after leaving the White House. This book is the fruit of that second set of tapes, and it's by turns intimate and dispassionately historical. With its chronological account of Clinton's then contemporaneous comments on the Middle East peace process, his Republican opponents and just about everything else under the sun (except for Whitewater and, for the most part, the Monica Lewinsky...
Chicago learns its Olympic fate on Oct. 2, when members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) meet in Copenhagen to award the 2016 Games. Madrid, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo are the other contenders, and boosters say the Second City has a fighting chance. First, it offers a compact proposal: about 90% of the athletes would compete within a 15-minute drive of the proposed Olympic Village site, not far from Chicago's downtown. Many events would take place in city parks, and most new facilities - including the 80,000-seat Olympic Stadium, scheduled for the South Side's Washington...
...comedy-satire An American Carol) as there are films directed by him. Yet to his kind of movie star, any mention, whether deferential or defamatory, is free publicity. Not that Moore needs others to do the work he's so accomplished at. He was the star guest on the second episode of Jay Leno's new prime-time show, flacking for Capitalism and singing two verses of Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are a-Changin'." Michael Moore, pop star...
Ever since Jesuit monks brought coffee to Guatemala three centuries ago, raising the beans has been a losing business for small farmers. Conditions are miserable - try lugging 100 lb. of fertilizer up a mountain - and even though coffee is the world's second most valuable traded commodity, after oil, the money it brings in is measly. "It's not enough to live on," says Luis Antonio, who has grown coffee near Quetzaltenango, in Guatemala's western highlands, for three decades but gets deeper in debt each year. "What we earn isn't enough to buy food for our children...