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...husband but has done so only from the sidelines in an unofficial capacity; facing the empty nest, she thought of adopting a baby. Says longtime friend Diane Blair, a member of Hillary's inner circle: "She was trying to figure out how she could be who she is--a thinker, a doer--without arousing hostility from those who felt she was overstepping her bounds. I think she's figured it out." A former White House official puts it more bluntly: "Fundamentally, Hillary was seared, and seared badly. She's trying to carve her niche so she can be remembered...
...tiny gap in my own mind that allows me to forget and shed the habits I once had. These are not "Jewish" ideas, or even religious ideas exactly, or at least they are not exclusively such. They are ideas of self-evaluation, ideas attractive to almost every thinker in history, religious or otherwise...
Except for the disappointing last chapter, Larry's Party is an exceptionally good read. The self-contained nature of the individual chapters make it student-friendly--it's easy to pick back up after you've put it down for a while. Larry Weller is an interesting thinker, for an ordinary guy, and his internal thoughts and comments are thoughts and comments are thought-provoking and fascinating. His worries and insecurities seem familiar. Larry's a sort of Everyman, only better...
Habermas-who Seyla Benhabib, chair of the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, called "post-war Europe's most distinguished political and social thinker"-will visit Harvard on Oct. 28. Habermas will participate in a seminar discussion in social studies and a workshop seminar at the Center for European Studies...
...obscure is by definition to be a failure. The obscure man asks bitterly, "Why is he famous, and not I? What's he got that I haven't got?" Manifestly, nothing. It is not the Salieri-Mozart configuration, mediocrity envying genius; today, let some unsung brilliant political thinker wonder why Dick Morris is famous for sucking a call girl's toes...