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...darkest point of Albright's remarkably sunlit life came in 1982 when Joe Albright announced without preamble, "This marriage is dead. And I'm in love with somebody else." They had been married 23 years, and she didn't want a divorce. But by the time he walked out, she was building an academic career and turning her home into a think tank, where she ran a sort of salon for Democratic foreign policy makers. She taught international relations at Georgetown, where students voted her the most popular professor four years in a row. In 1984 she pitched...
...superhero cartoon "Superfriends"? Is it so exclusive that I'd never even heard of it? Right away, members of the a cappella community made it difficult for me to discern whether I had stumbled upon a typical administrative body or I had sniffed out a cappella's deepest, darkest secret. Crooners refused to comment on it. They denied its existence. They told me it was really no big deal...
...even tones of ironic amusement, Sweeney talks about getting her brother through spinal-tap chemotherapy and convincing her mother that people who call noodles pasta are not just showing off. Black humor prevails even in the darkest hours. When Julia joins her brother as a cancer patient, they start answering the telephone, "International House of Cancer." Just three days after Mike's death, Julia has to undergo a hysterectomy, and her doctor suggests that she might want to harvest a few eggs from her still-functioning ovaries, which could later be fertilized by a sperm donor and carried to term...
...from airline-bomb-plot mastermind Ramzi Yousef to Mexican drug tycoon Juan Garcia Abrego. And she has revitalized Justice's antitrust, civil rights and environment divisions. But she has also failed to harness her popularity to win important legislative battles, such as expanding the FBI's wiretap authority. Her darkest day remains the deadly assault on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas; its devastating effect on the morale of the FBI continues to haunt the agency...
Sure. But I think that the dominant reality of press coverage of the 1996 campaign is that the Washington press corps has made itself irrelevant. It has devoted more institutional resources over the previous four years to hollow scandals and character assassination originating in the darkest bacterial recesses of the Republican right. The media has done this to itself...