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...image of himself. The biography could almost paint Mailer in a tragic light, but ultimately he seems too unconcerned, too disconnected from a reality and an America that he himself helped to fashion. Instead, Mailer's life appears comic, with the only constant being his love of shock tactics and always appearing unpredictable. Although he has lived a life full of exciting people and events, I don't necessarily envy Norman Mailer. It seems like he could never enjoy any of it, like it was just one escapade after another, and that he never really found whatever he was looking...
...York City - and around the country - the police and the communities they serve will grapple with this verdict for some time. "People are in a state of shock and fury that these police officers could fire 41 shots at Diallo and walk away," says White. "The fact that there were four black women on the jury may serve to relieve at least some of the tension in the black community...
Last year's allegations of bribery among members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) marred the image of a competition that should be about youthful idealism, heroic achievements and national pride. While one has become accustomed to hearing about unethical actions in professional sports, it was a shock that the directors of the world's most prominent amateur sporting competition had succumbed to the temptations of gifts from cities seeking to host the games...
While Patrick took the first game 9-7, Elias, instead of letting down, turned the tables on Patrick and won 9-7 in the second. Then, in what must have been an absolute shock to the Quakers, Elias took the third game easily from Patrick, 9-3, and for a few moments, it looked as if the upset was possible...
...asks Brutus, who is, in fact, an honorable man yet is easily seduced to treason by an envious one. I can still hear George McGovern's avowal of fealty to his running mate, Thomas Eagleton, in the 1972 presidential campaign, after it was revealed that Eagleton had undergone electric-shock therapy. "I'm behind him 1,000%," said McGovern, a few days before dumping...