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...letters are easy, intimate; but to read them is to wonder if they are an extension of his personal relationships or a substitute for them. He began his public life as a radio announcer, talking to an audience he could not see; he went on as a movie star to delight an audience he never met. But the fans would write letters, and he would write back. In the case of Lorraine Wagner, Reagan fan-club president, Philadelphia chapter, there were some 150 letters over the course of 50 years. As his political following grew, the conversation continued, and there...
...Army after decades of knee-jerk loathing for all things military. In an open letter encouraging Clark to run, Michael Moore, the fastidiously unkempt left-wing documentarian, wrote, "Michael Moore likes a general? I never thought I'd write those words. But desperate times call for desperate measures." Wonder what Moore thinks now, after Clark spent the first days of his campaign stepping all over his epaulets on the most basic question of the coming election: Was George W. Bush right or wrong to go to war in Iraq? Actually, I have a certain sympathy for Clark's stumbles. This...
...gangster's 14-year-old son join the force; in June, a three-year-old girl in Sichuan province starved to death after police reportedly detained her mother for drug use and ignored for 17 days her pleas that the girl be collected from their locked apartment. Small wonder that in August the Beijing-based China Newsweekly declared that "the police today face their most severe crisis of confidence...
...supervisory board at the time and are charged with "breach of trust," a violation of fiduciary duty. The case has stunned the German business and political worlds and sparked intense speculation about hidden motives. Some see it as an attack on Germany as a place to do business. Others wonder whether it may be the payback for allowing a big German company to be bought by a non-German competitor. And when the Financial Times splashed on its front page Deutsche Bank's threat to move its headquarters to London - a report from which it later retreated - bankers in Frankfurt...
...Harvard? As teens become increasingly saturated with all things pop—music, celebrity, fashion, advertising, movies—should we embrace the pop psychology of Dr. Phil as we study Freud? Should we stop casting a collective frown upon those students in section who draw references from The Wonder Years or the MTV Video Music Awards...