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...finally there was the vast national audience, transfixed by testimony | that seeped into every conversation. The tragedy might at least have a valuable legacy if it left America's workers with a higher code of conduct to take into their jobs every day. But the actual spectacle left the watcher feeling demeaned and humiliated and terribly sad. So much substance was at stake, and so many symbols, that it almost seemed preferable to call it all off and go home before any more damage was done. In the end, of course, there would be no winners, only scars...
Rural Mississippi is a long way from the White House, where Sidey has chronicled the comings and goings of Presidents from Eisenhower to Bush. But for this veteran Washington watcher, who logs at least 100,000 miles a year roving the country's byways, the heartland is where the drama of American politics unfolds. "Any program that is passed either affects certain people or they have to pay for it," he explains. "To comprehend the political struggles in Washington, you have to know what's occurring in the small corners of this nation." Sidey has always been unerring...
...reaching out to the tormentor himself. There was Saddam, who once said he would run a sword through the rebellious Talabani before permitting him to return to Iraq, pressing his lips against the cheek of the Kurdish representative. It was enough to make even the most cynical Middle East watcher blink hard and move closer...
PRESIDENT REAGAN: THE ROLE OF A LIFETIME by Lou Cannon (Simon & Schuster; $24.95). This is not the Reagan book that everyone is talking about -- though, oddly enough, from the same publisher -- but it is essential reading, compiled by a veteran journalist and Ronnie watcher, for anyone interested in the star politics of the 1980s...
...Some critics now call the Reader smug, self- satisfied, a bit too yuppified, and say it has sacrificed some edge to gain a broader audience. "There's a big chance they will lose their identity," says Samir A. Husni, a University of Mississippi associate journalism professor and magazine watcher. It sounds like the kind of thirtysomething problem that publisher Utne, on his TV-watching days, might appreciate...