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...their snide way, seem intended to reveal a softer side of the acerbic late-night host. In one, Letterman talks about his two sisters. The older one, he says, taught him, "When you go to the bathroom, close the door"; and the younger one was "one of the smartest people that I've ever been around" but "won't give me her phone number...
Markoe and Letterman split up five years ago and no longer speak. Letterman expresses no bitterness and praises Markoe as "the smartest, funniest woman I've ever been around." Markoe, who is now writing books, says she hasn't watched Letterman's show since the breakup and "won't even talk to people about working on another late-night show. I have no interest in helping any other white man in a suit do an inventive show. Let them all find their own damn inventive shows...
...redemption, though--the soundtrack is one of the rare bright spots. Adding groups such as Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Soul Asylum and Toad the Wet Sprocket was the movie's only stroke of genius. Obviously it was meant to attract a group of money-spending teenagers, even though the smartest of them will spend their money on the soundtrack and stay away from the theater...
...would be notwithstanding his additional claim for political asylum. "It takes so long," notes immigration expert Muzaffar Chishti, "because of our due- process system." Depending on one's stand on immigration and the law, that system is either a blessing or a curse. In Abdel Rahman's case, the smartest thing may be to leave him in New Jersey, under surveillance. Who knows how many more terrorist plots might be revealed that...
...Rose Garden and the course of American jurisprudence would certainly have been different. Steel entered her soul, says a judge who knows her, and she did not fall prey to what had stopped women for so long -- the sense that it was one thing to be the smartest student in the class but another to have that undefinable something men insist it takes to be a top-notch lawyer. She did not think her early success was a fluke nor exclusion her fate, and this most unlikely of firebrands took one of the few clerkships offered, for a district court...