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...back and forth between the magazines, with managing editors, photographers, reporters and mailroom clerks shuttling between elevator banks and mastheads with regularity and ease.) If the TIME sensibility informs the structure of the issue, we hope you will agree that the Life perspective--a picture really is worth a thousand words--flavors each page...
...thousand miles east of Washington on Dec. 14, a President who suffered through his own disastrous early days in office was crossing the Atlantic on Air Force One, musing to reporters about the challenges facing his successor. Typically, Bill Clinton radiated hope and optimism. "Maybe the last few years have bled enough poison out of the system," he said. "I think Democrats will give him a honeymoon and the opportunity to get his feet on the ground." Of course they will. It's a hopeful season...
...second act he hopes for is a second chance. But even though he won the popular vote and, for all we'll ever know, the electoral one, his own party is complaining that had he won bigger, he wouldn't have needed to be worried over a few thousand uncounted ballots. Democrats don't like their losers, even good ones...
...Seeing the house that Hillary Clinton is considering - a fairytale-pointy, creamy Queen Anne pile on O Street that I passed ten thousand times when I was a child - I find that I am obscurely offended. I feel a stab of nostalgia. Georgetown is the only place where I am instinctively at home, even though I have been away for many years. I also feel irrationally possessive about Georgetown, having grown up there - when it was quaint and a lot cheaper, when working-class whites and blacks lived side by side with people from the State Department...
...Furthermore, the predictions of the French priest Raoul Glaber that Satan would be unleashed upon us and that the great Apocalypse would arrive last January have not come true. We can also take comfort in what one of our forebears thought of the passage of the last millennium, one thousand years...