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...TIME: Glad you could spare a moment...
...around the world. In a curious way, part of the genius of America has been a collective forgetfulness, a talent for somehow outdistancing problems in a headlong race toward something new. It is a form of heedlessness, perhaps, blithe and profligate, but also an exuberant forward spin that may spare people the exhausting obligations of revenge. A curse of the Middle East is that almost nothing there is ever forgotten. Part of the difference is physical space: Americans had an enormous continent to flow into, an expanse in which to lose themselves and some of their obsessions. Like the Zionist...
Although Congress will continue to pursue its own inquiries, appointment of an independent counsel could help spare the Administration some of the glare of public scrutiny. The law requires that the counsel's probe be shrouded in the utmost secrecy; all evidence gathered will be closely guarded and can only be made public with approval of the three judges...
With encouragement from Joan, Simon in his spare time wrote Come Blow Your Horn, about two young brothers moving away from home and trying to leave the family waxed-fruit business for something more artistic. It took 1,200 pages of drafts?some the product of Simon's compulsive perfectionism, some ordered up by a succession of about a dozen potential producers?to get it staged. Says Simon: "If we had closed, I would have folded my tent and gone out to Los Angeles to write My Three Sons for twelve years." Instead, success followed success: Barefoot in the Park...
...herself to death to escape an abusive marriage, Sanghera begins to realize the toll that custom and oppression are taking on Asian women. While raising children alone and pursuing a college degree on virtually no money, she launches Karma Nirvana (from Sanskrit words connoting action and enlightenment) in a spare room at a Derby women's shelter...