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...most famous example concerns the death penalty. It appears rather promiscuously in the Bible. The Talmud, however, constructs such difficult evidentiary requirements and such extraordinary protections against miscarried justice that the rabbis termed a high court that executes one person in seven years "tyrannical." Another authority, continues the Talmud, says one person in 70 years...
...better without makeup. When her father reached out to shake her hand at her May law-school graduation, she pulled him into a hug. Gore may be known to some as "Prince Albert," but his eldest child is known for never putting on airs. She's the kind of person who, Michael Kinsley, editor of the online magazine Slate, recalls, did not mind doing scut work as an editorial assistant...
Some of this evolving story is reflected through Amanda's mind, a smaller portion through Ruth's, and the rest through regular third-person narration. The transitions seem a little jumpy and awkward at first, but Schwarz soon finds a smooth rhythm of backing and forthing, one that forestalls certain disclosures without seeming excessively calculating or coy. As the years pass on the farm and in the small village nearby--the Great Depression in the outside world is manifested here only as collapsing milk prices--the hope arises that maybe there was no dark secret about Mattie's death...
...memoir he spoke of himself in the third person, as if Alec Guinness were another, lesser role: "He is well aware he is not in the same class as Olivier, Gielgud, Richardson." Guinness is certainly in the class of these great actors, but he is not of their species. They were always out front, filling a stage or a screen with their presence. Guinness was an inside man, guileful--a master spy, all the more imposing for his invisibility. And more than any other British actor of his stature, Guinness had a miniaturist style that was made for movies...
...will make her own political debut. She is scheduled to introduce her mother at the Democratic Convention--a prospect she finds "a little bit nerve-racking." After that, she expects to devote much of the fall to helping turn out the youth vote. "I'm a really private person, and this doesn't come naturally at all," she says. "But I feel so compelled to do whatever I can to help, because I really believe so strongly in my father and what he wants to do with this country." The other two Gore children, meanwhile, have remained largely...