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...early and outspoken critic of Kohl's autocratic domination of the party. While that was considered a liability with Kohl in power, Biedenkopf now stands out as the party's conscience, in much the same way Jimmy Carter appeared so attractive to an American electorate revolted by the Watergate affair...
...faithful member of Alcoholics Anonymous and an increasingly devout Catholic. He worked as a driver in Ted Kennedy's re-election campaign in 1994, then took a similar job with cousin Michael Kennedy's nonprofit Citizens Energy Corp. In 1997, however, Skakel talked to police about his cousin's affair with a 15-year-old babysitter. (Michael died in a 1997 skiing accident.) Soon after, Skakel moved from Massachusetts into the Florida house owned by his father in an expensive gated community. Still, Robert Kennedy Jr. told the New York Times last week that Skakel "is as honest as daylight...
...that would have done a kindergartner proud: first they purchased an AP teletype machine (the kind with the clattering printer and bells). Then they jacked it into the wall of Levin's office. Then they pointed a camera at it. The result: Headline News, circa Nixon. And a love affair--between Jerry Levin and technology. "I thought," he said last week, "'This is terrific.'" Levin had become a geek...
NAME: Jeffrey ("Boob") Toobin OCCUPATION: scandal chronicler BEST PUNCH: In A Vast Conspiracy, his new book about the Lewinsky affair, Toobin writes that Goldberg once bragged about sleeping with President Lyndon Johnson...
Through a dizzying series of flashbacks, we learn of the passionate adolescent love affair between Ishmael and young Hatsue Imada (Youki Kudoh)--now the wife of the accused. We learn how, from the depths of an American internment camp, Hatsue wrote to him breaking off the affair. We observe Ishmael's tortured reaction to her letter and understand his desire to gain some measure of revenge. We witness Hatsue's internment-camp marriage to Kazuo. We are told how, after the war's end, Kazuo learned that land promised to his family had been sold to a third party...