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...Watson episode is at least partly factual. Matthiessen excels at writing nonfiction, but he seems uncomfortable inventing the astonishments--the outrageous lies--that keep novels afloat. Perhaps for this reason, he locked his readers away from E.J. Watson and the central drama. He presented his novel as a sheaf of tortuous, conflicting depositions by participants and onlookers that left the truth about the enigmatic Watson untold. Lost Man's River carries the puzzle forward, but in doing so withdraws an additional 50 years from the event. Lucius Watson, one of E.J.'s sons, by now an elderly, self-apologetic historian...
...being waged against affirmative action, the most potent weapon of all may be a harmless-looking sheaf of papers stashed in the book-lined office of Carl Cohen, a philosophy professor at the University of Michigan. The documents, which Cohen obtained by filing a Freedom of Information Act request, contain the top-secret charts and grids the university uses in selecting its incoming class. With their frequent references to the race of applicants, and apparent use of different and lower selection criteria for minority applicants, Cohen's materials are the kind of evidence that make a conservative litigator's pulse...
...Daddy thinking." One night, after they had preached a joint crusade in, of all places, Saskatoon, Billy called him to his hotel room. "He said, 'Franklin, I'm really dreading the board meeting that's coming,'" because his ill health had made "some changes" necessary. He produced a sheaf of letters he had received from executive-committee members, letters he said he had thus far shared only with Ruth. They had a common thread, he explained,"...and that's that you're to be the one to take it over. And, Franklin, I agree with them, and if I present...
...still eat well, snag the occasional case of liquor or junket to Palm Springs, California, if your friendships are sufficiently close. This being Washington, there is a sheaf of guidelines defining this ineffable state, and the very careful can get an advisory opinion certifying the degree of closeness in case one is reported for impermissible fraternization with a known lobbyist. The House guidelines mix lawyerly analysis with primer language the most ethically challenged can understand, employing kindergarten names such as Moe Member, Larry Lobbyist and Stella Staffer to make their points. (Example: Carla Congresswoman lunches periodically with Edna Executive. Edna...
...FIRST AWARE OF WHAT she had found. Carolyn Huber periodically cleans out the book room, the cluttered space next to Hillary Clinton's third-floor White House study where small gifts to the President accrue. Last August, Huber came across a sheaf of folded computer printouts. Musing briefly that they looked like legal billing sheets, she carried them off in a box with some knick-knacks. It was not until Jan. 4 that, while straightening her own East Wing office, she looked a bit more closely. At that point, as she testified last Thursday before Senator Alfonse D'Amato...