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Whether the subject is love or alienation, the invention of rich, new literary metaphors is difficult enough. When the subject is race in America, however, it's almost impossible. In his first novel, The Intuitionist (Anchor Books; 255 pages; $19.95), Colson Whitehead has solved the problem, coming up with the freshest racial allegory since Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Toni Morrison's The Bluest...
...these 17,000 is 90-year-old Harriet Whitehead. She lives in an immaculate house on Avon Street, filled with bookcases of leather-bound volumes and mahogany furniture. She has lived in Cambridge since 1948, and her husband served on the Harvard Business School faculty...
...Whitehead has missed voting only twice in her entire life...
...first was in 1940, and Whitehead said she had a rather compelling reason...
There is no guidance on the books about what constitutes actual grounds for impeachment: Nixon resigned before a Senate trial unfolded. But at the time, a third-year law student named John Whitehead interviewed a congressional candidate on the subject: "I think the definition should include any criminal acts, plus a willful failure of the President to fulfill his duty to uphold and execute the laws of the United States," the candidate replied. "The third factor that I think constitutes an impeachable offense would be willful, reckless behavior in office, just totally incompetent conduct in the office and the disregard...