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Have two sisters ever been closer than Tricia and Julie Nixon? Tied by bonds of family, forged by political fires, they endured as daughters of the only American President to resign; they smile or wave or cry together in a thousand pictures, standing by their father and each other. Each was maid of honor for the other. Tricia, 56, says she trusted her sister so much that when Julie was writing her highly praised book about their mother, Tricia turned over her diary. That closeness has been strained this spring, as a battle over how to spend a $19 million...
...changing her schedule around to be at Tricia's side for a literacy event whose host was First Lady Laura Bush on Monday evening in New York. "That will do more than anything I can say to put this behind us," Julie says. "A picture is worth a thousand words...
...book reflecting every style of motherhood, from Ayun Halliday's The Big Rumpus (Seal Press), a breezy chronicle of raising children in the more bohemian neighborhoods of New York City, to Rachel Cusk's cerebral A Life's Work (Picador), an almost anatomical examination of the thousand shocks that new motherhood inflicts on a woman's psyche...
...extra three or four months' training to hone their military skills. One exercise gives them four seconds to decide whether they are facing an armed rebel or an innocent civilian?a distinction which, as Aceh's casualty figures suggest, has mattered little in the past. More than a thousand civilians perished in the conflict last year; this year's death toll looks set to surpass that. Combat troops have also been issued with booklets explaining the rules of engagement. One, called The Pocketbook of TNI Soldier Etiquette, shows a cartoon depicting a soldier about to rape a woman fleeing...
...Harvard softball team’s season may have ended yesterday without an Ivy title, an NCAA bid or a thousand-strong crowd of ardent supporters. But what it did have—the best record in school history, the school’s first ECAC championship, and a thousand-strong horde of sweet memories—was plenty to be happy...