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...speak about the Peace Constitution, I realize that there were merits in what the Americans accomplished. I thought that Japanese people who had grown up in postwar Japan, as did Doi, would never be able to commend the occupation for much at all. Therefore, it was a real shock to hear her proclaim the Peace Constitution as a "refreshing" break from war and strife...
...entirely novel question: Would she be indicted? Hillary had stood by her husband through Gennifer Flowers and Paula Jones, through questions about the draft and whether he inhaled, but to see her own moral standards attacked was something new. "That stung her really hard, put her in shock," says a long-standing ally. "Hillary Rodham Clinton never recovered from that, in a profound...
This kind of news is hard to cope with. First comes shock and a flash of retaliatory rage. Then the mind begins to subdue itself to a state of sullen depression--reflecting that these things happen all the time, and always have. There was the double horror just the week before involving first an older man from Long Island and a 15-year-old from New Jersey he had met through the Internet and sexually abused, and second that same abused 15-year-old who then raped and murdered an 11-year...
Some days I look in the mirror, see my mother looking back and, after the shock passes, give in to it. Why was I so sure I could do it better? As Letty Cottin Pogrebin says in Getting Over Getting Older, it's not so much our fading youth we worry about as our fading future. Hillary may have talked wistfully about adopting a child just as Chelsea was planning to leave home, not for the family-values vote, as cynics suggested, but to duplicate her one unambiguous triumph, the most successful and important enterprise of her life...
...what kind of conspiracy was it? The authorities have been vague. On Tuesday, Pearl's mayor, Jimmy Foster, told the Clarion-Ledger of Jackson that his son Kyle, 17, was one of Woodham's intended victims "for the shock value of shooting the mayor's son." During the shooting spree, Woodham had allegedly turned to one of the injured boys to apologize, saying the bullet was meant for Foster...