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...emptive regret for what a Vanity Fair reporter might have found in some 200 interviews. Burton suddenly remembered he had been separated from his wife three times. The next day his memory was jogged again when he learned that an Indianapolis paper would report that he had had an affair and fathered an illegitimate child. He wouldn't say more because of "everybody's heart being ripped out" and because "enough is enough." Sound familiar...
...would have us believe. Time changes people, but it does not change them immediately or completely. The President says he made a mistake with Monica S. Lewinsky, but that we should now move forward. Perhaps tomorrow will bring a new Bill Clinton, one who won't have an affair with a 21-year-old intern on the country's time, in the country's house, and one who doesn't lie to the electorate. Perhaps yesterday really is gone. I hope so, but I don't believe it. Here...
...nation's largest black denominations, admitted Monday to an "improper relationship" with a coworker -- and he too wants forgiveness. But like Clinton, he's not out of the doghouse quite yet. The board of the National Baptist Convention says it is willing to forgive Lyons his extramarital affair, but his pending indictments for fraud, money laundering and tax evasion are another matter -- especially if they lead to a conviction...
...literary gossip and even the Maynard fan must think at some point: tell us something we really want to know. And now, Maynard has tried to oblige. In At Home in the World (Picador; 352 pages; $25)--yes, it's another memoir--she lifts the veil on the devastating affair she had with J.D. Salinger when she was 18 and the reclusive author of Catcher in the Rye was 53. Maynard's recounting is full of all those key details sympathetic girlfriends require. He made her eat frozen Birds Eye peas for breakfast and then throw up; he seemed...
...real and true." Maybe this is it. But where Salinger, or many a better writer, would have fictionalized his truths, opening up new universes for the reader, Maynard sheds no light on anything beyond the little spotlight she is standing in. She had a complicated childhood, a shattering love affair, a complicated adulthood. Join the club, kiddo, as Salinger himself might...