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...Washington facts sometimes tend to mislead. All the facts sometimes tend to mislead absolutely." This play on Lord Acton's pontification about the corrupting effects of power appeared 24 years ago in Ward Just's The Congressman Who Loved Flaubert. Since then, Just has published more than a dozen works of political fiction that have done what journalism rarely accomplishes: dramatize the work of government through complex characters whose heavy responsibilities defy easy moralizing...
...harshest suspension in NBA playoff history, left the Knicks without the services of Patrick Ewing and Allen Houston in Game 6 of the playoffs Friday in New York. Larry Johnson and John Starks will serve their suspensions either in Game 7 or Game 1 against the Bulls. Both Charlie Ward and P.J. Brown, who were involved in the initial entanglement, did not dispute the NBA's ruling and will serve out their suspensions...
...quite escape the feeling that no one involved in Fathers? Day (which is yet another Americanized version of a French farce) is quite working to full capacity. As long as they?re borrowing from offshore sources, why not this old, curiously appropriate title: Memoirs of Underdevelopment." BOOKS . . . ECHO HOUSE: Ward Just's new novel (Houghton Mifflin; 328 pages; $25) returns to his familiar territory of the nation's capitol in a story that spans nearly the entire 20th century and sees the Federal District emerge from drowsy Southern town into frenetic center of world power. "Just, a Washington journalist...
...Wallison, Heather Phillips, sophomore Haley Steele, and junior Zelime Ward were all named All-Americans. Princeton 8 Harvard...
...English instructor at Loyola Marymount University. Her partner Michael Bartley is a black man from Jamaica, and their son Noah is coming up on his first birthday. Mandell remembers last March, when she and members of her family were taking a get-acquainted tour of the maternity ward at Santa Monica Hospital. "There were about 50 couples on the tour," she says. "At least half of them were multiracial. My cousin, who lives in Minnesota, pointed it out to me. I hadn't even noticed. I think in L.A. there are so many multiracial people you don't even...