Word: truman
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Lawrence Wright's Remembering Satan (Knopf; 205 pages; $22) seems likely to / be considered the most powerful and disturbing true crime narrative to appear since Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. But what was the crime? Certainly it was not satanic abuse, says Wright, a New Yorker reporter, although a man sits in jail for confessing to just that...
...snapshot of the culture-character fusion, remember the moment not long ago when a girl on MTV asked Clinton whether he wore boxer shorts or briefs. Can anyone imagine Harry Truman answering the question? If asked, Truman would have said, "None of your damn business!" He would have been right. Bill Clinton might have gracefully said on MTV, "Well, I have been accused of not having a sufficiently dignified approach, so maybe I'd better not answer that...
...Mass. Ave., Cambridge. 497-0576. Downstairs: Stub Junkmen on Thursday, March 17. Jawbox on Friday, March 18. Green Magnet on Saturday, March 19 MTV Spoken Wurd four on Sunday, March 20. Kerouac Festival on Tuesday, March 22. Upstairs: The Friggs on Thursday, March 17. Kudgel on Friday, March 18. Truman's Water on Saturday, March 19. Tsunmai on Wednesday, March...
...Congress passes our budget this year, for first time since Harry Truman was presidents, the deficit will go down for the three years in a row," he said...
...North Korea cannot be allowed to develop a nuclear bomb," Clinton said firmly last November, no doubt recalling that the last time a U.S. Administration got Korea wrong, the body-bag business became a growth industry because Harry Truman took too long to give 'em hell. "Drawing a line in the sand early is what you should have done in the '50s," says a Japanese diplomat. "Today you should be softer. Kim's bottom line is still his regime's survival, but victory is defined differently this time. Kim knows the way to win in the '90s is by joining...