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What Caleb L. Weatherl ’10 wouldn't find out until much later—until I was sitting across from him in a D.C. restaurant, and we had already spent a whole day together—was that my article wasn't just about Harvard kids who like politics. It was about Harvard kids who want to be President of the United States of America. And the central question of my article was: does Caleb Weatherl want to be President? Or, as his Harvard classmates would read it, Is Caleb Weatherl a tool...
...first day I spent interviewing Caleb, I did everything I could to put him at ease. I laughed and joked and tried to be unintimidating. As we had lunch and walked around Georgetown, I asked him about his background and how he snagged a job with Karl Rove. We chatted about his semester abroad in Italy and his Texan upbringing. Easy question after easy question, nothing to scare...
...book, The Journalist and the Murderer, Malcolm describes the real case of journalist Joe McGinniss, who spent years interviewing and buttering up a convicted murderer—only to publish a biography of the man arguing that he was a psychopathic killer. The convict sued him for fraud; he had thought the journalist was his friend. The case ended in a hung jury, but the jurors had tended to favor the murderer...
...Bianchi then fell pregnant with her new husband's child but died in childbirth in 2008. Her husband refused to return Sean to his father, and has been fighting for custody ever since. He and his Brazilian family said the child had spent so long in Brazil that it would be cruel to return him to a father he hardly knew...
...Obamas' visit to the Children's National Medical Center this week, one young patient asked Sasha Obama whether anything would change for their first celebration of Christmas as the First Family. "I don't think anything will be very different," Sasha said. She may be right. The Obamas spent a quiet Christmas in Hawaii last year, staying in their rented house on Christmas Eve and visiting with soldiers stationed at Marine Corps Base Hawaii on Christmas Day. They may miss singing carols and reading the Christmas story in the book of Luke, at least in a formal church setting...