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...from the lowest common denominator. It's not all gray to her; it's all black and white. I think the five- and six-year-old mind-set is very much like that. You just know things very clearly, that as you grow up, get murky. I try to write her in really simplistic, very innocent terms. In that regard, she gets in trouble. She doesn't have a great command of the language yet; she doesn't speak the Queen's English, which I think would be ridiculous for a five-year-old. I just have...
...emergence of the digital age, and in 1993 he headed a team that created TIME Online. Later that year Isaacson became Time Inc.'s editor of new media, a position he held until assuming his present post a year ago. Along the way he also found time to write Kissinger, the definitive study of the former Secretary of State, and, before that, to co-write The Wise Men, a study of the foreign policy establishment that emerged after World War II. He continues to work on a biography of Ben Franklin, whom he calls "the world's first interactive journalist...
...thought that TIME, committed to authoritative reporting, synthesis and analysis, and to telling stories through people, seemed uniquely suited to getting the story behind the Gates myths, and that TIME managing editor Walter Isaacson seemed uniquely qualified to report and write the story...
Didn't those wags who write headlines for British tabloid newspapers have a field day with this story! YES-SIR-DAY, HARD DAY'S KNIGHT and, of course, DUB ME DO, the papers crowed when it was announced that aging vegetarian, philanthropist and, oh yeah, former Beatle PAUL MCCARTNEY, 54, was to be knighted. All the Beatles were previously given M.B.E.s (Members of the Order of the British Empire), although John Lennon subsequently sent his back as a protest against the Vietnam War. "It's a fantastic honor," said McCartney, "and I'm gratefully receiving it on behalf...
...Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599,” scholar James Shapiro finds no evidence of an amorous element in the playwright’s life at the end of the 16th century. “If Shakespeare was in love in 1599,” Shapiro writes, “it was with words.”And Shakespeare’s love of words reached a passionate peak that year. In a 12-month span, Shakespeare finished “Henry the Fifth, “Julius Caesar...