Word: truths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That line brought down the house. But in truth, this First Lady is still trying to figure out who she can be and what she can do. She does not want to repeat the mistakes she made during her husband's first two years in office, when she alienated many Americans not because she was a powerful woman but because she seemed not to realize that the citizenry expects its powerful leaders, male and female, to show the humility befitting those whose authority is merely on loan from the people...
...must incorporate a place for people to chat--your newspaper, your favorite vodka, even the John (Entertainment Tonight) Tesh home page, whose virtual commons is called Tesh-Talk. Never mind that what passes for community online is mostly people typing cranky messages at each other. Community is the bankable truth of the moment...
...statement shocks, as it was no doubt meant to, but it is a metaphor for Ellroy's narrative and investigative methods. Mere sentiment deflects the truth. Love and reconciliation can come only through knowledge, however horrifying. His journey toward his mother goes beyond the personal into a world of pain and redemption...
...home state than I did from the local media coverage and the appearances and ads that the candidates spent millions of dollars on. Excellent work. I am also continually amazed by the district-specific congressional facts you print from time to time. They are an oasis of truth after months of exaggerated figures and lies from candidate to candidate and party to party. Three cheers for technology and hard work! CHRISTOPHER KIRCHNER Philadelphia Via E-mail...
...story of the time--a strange, defining piece of cold war Kabuki--has remained a mystery intact. The matter of Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers, and which of them was telling the truth, became a litmus test for several generations, a marker not only of political sympathies but also of intellectual class and sensibility. Hiss and Chambers were the cold war's Mozart and Salieri, and their mysteries were multilayered. If you went below the murk of espionage and infiltration and double lives--a subject fascinating in itself--you penetrated to the deeper strangeness of the two men's psychologies...