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...that's what it's like reading Morris' new biography, Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan (Random House; 874 pages; $35). There is fact and there is fiction, and they are jumbled together. The facts are meticulously footnoted in an epic 115-page section at the end of the book. But so is the fiction. Morris has created detailed and utterly false notes to buttress the fanciful parts of his book, which feature a fictional character, also named Edmund Morris, who is a contemporary of Dutch Reagan's. That he called the book a "memoir" and not a biography...
...what Tori Amos is saying. Actually, I don't think Tori Amos knows what Tori Amos is saying, but most of us can mysteriously understand what she's feeling. Her fifth solo release, the double-CD set To Venus and Back reaffirms the notion that even a string of random words can, in some way, convey angst, love, and yes, even more angst. Unlike her prior albums, which dealt with Amos's traumatic past, To Venus and Back doesn't really have a theme, but Amos insists that it was instead inspired by her Muse. "I look at the piano...
...approval, which for someone my age is really weird," she told listeners last month. "'Sketchy,' when applied to a new acquaintance, is definitely not a compliment--though what it is is not clear to me. My students tell me on the DL, or 'down low,' that I'm really random. Whatever...
...also have to pee in a cup. On Friday, four counties began mandatory drug testing for all new welfare recipients. The new tests, which are the first of their kind in the country, will be administered to everyone who comes in to collect their first public assistance check; random tests will also be given to current welfare recipients. Those who test positive will be required to get treatment, and those who refuse to take the test will be cut off welfare within four months. Opponents of the initiative, including various welfare-rights groups and the ACLU, which has launched...
...whom you ask, says TIME senior reporter Alain Sanders. "The current Supreme Court is very conservative on the Fourth Amendment, and they?ve given government a lot of freedom to enact what many consider to be unreasonable intrusions." In the past, explains Sanders, "the court has generally upheld random drug tests when it has perceived an important impact on safety or law enforcement. The question now is: Does random drug testing of welfare recipients serve any important safety or law enforcement rationale?" Stay tuned: Sanders believes that this case may make its way to the Supreme Court, and speculates that...