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Even now, however, it's not hard to find Democrats around Washington who scoff at the idea of Ken Starr as the right-wing avenger. "Not the Ken Starr I know," says Alan B. Morrison, who co-founded the Public Citizen Litigation Group with Ralph Nader, and has often argued before Starr's court. What does matter to Starr, he says, is the nature of his suspicions against Clinton. "Ken thinks the President behaved badly," Morrison says. "In his mind, having an affair with a 21-year-old intern would be bad behavior for anybody...
...enjoyed immensely Paul Gray's article about Toni Morrison and her new novel Paradise [BOOKS, Jan. 19]. Few writers of the modern age have been as masterly, as powerful in the use of the language as she is. But Gray left out an important aspect of Morrison: her role as a teacher. Having had her as a professor and adviser, I can tell you that she is an inspirational force who pushes her students to excel far beyond their own expectations. She is accessible to students and committed to seeing us search within ourselves to find our passion and communicate...
...recipient of this honor, Bailyn joins intellectual luminaries such as Robert Penn Warren, Saul Bellow, Barbara Tuchman and Toni Morrison, all of whom were chosen to deliver past Jefferson Lectures in the Humanities
...want to give up the delight of not having to answer to another person, and I was worried about how my two boys would react to a stepfather." Those sons are in their 30s, one an architect and the other a painter and musician; one of them produced Morrison's first grandchild...
Although her professional responsibilities--to Princeton, her publisher, her public--are heavy, Morrison insists that "my personal life is most unexciting, and I like it like that." She sees a small group of friends occasionally and reads all the time. "Reading is splendid." She also gardens at the house in the country, "pot gardening, now mostly flowers. There have been mornings when I've gone into my greenhouse at sunrise, and the next time I checked it was noon...