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...night before he formally unveiled his health-care reform plan, the President pulled off what looked to some like the second biggest initiative of his presidency: a surprise party for his wife. Just when the Clinton White House seemed set to return to its truest, all-work-and-no-play self, more than 150 people waited in the dark as the perhaps not totally unprepared Mrs. Clinton descended the main staircase...
...wonder NBC's decision to replace David Letterman with a nobody ( provoked such a frenzy. Conan O'Brien, who just turned 30, is the truest show- business Cinderella since -- well, ever. O'Brien isn't merely "little known"; Saturday Night Live's Al Franken, for instance, is a superstar by comparison. Hundreds of people his age have logged more TV time. O'Brien will soon get remedial training (an NBC executive foresees "several weeks" of dry-run shows), but before the summer ends he will have to entertain 3 million people night after night after night...
...belief that your religion is truest or right (not just "right for you") is the new "love that dare not speak its name" at Harvard. Though this is the belief that traditionally motivates religious individuals, it's perceived here as a threat to pluralism or a perpetuation of Eurocentrism: who are you to say your heritage is better than another's? Religious students I know have often felt pressured to act as if their personal faith were a "lifestyle choice" like choosing to dye your hair blonde...
Perhaps the oldest cliche--and, sure enough, one of the truest--is that playoff series have nothing to do with regular season standings. What counts is the present. Forget the past...
Only those born in Siena, the oldest and truest members of the contrade, truly understand the significance of the Palio. They feel it deeply in their hearts and desperately want to keep it a local affair, reserved only to those for whom it has meaning...