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The Mean Spirits From the Clarence Thomas Hearings Never Left
Tweet Share on Facebook October 26, 2010 Comment (10)Virginia Lamp Thomas stirred the boiling cauldron of national memory from 19 Novembers ago, with on-cue Halloween timing. The wife of Clarence Thomas, a member of the Supreme Court, called up Anita Hill, unbidden, and demanded an apology for "what you did you my husband." That's a lot like the wife of a Salem witch trial judge asking an apology from a young woman drowned in the town duck pond.
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Nancy Pelosi Catches the Anger Once Aimed at Hillary Clinton
Tweet Share on Facebook October 18, 2010 Comment (16)Those with all the rage against Hillary Clinton and her brilliant political career have shifted their focus to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, the California Democrat.
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Lee Hamilton, Carla Cohen, and Washington's Dialogue
Tweet Share on Facebook October 13, 2010 Comment (1)Washington is losing a wise man--and has just lost a wise woman this autumnal month. Lee Hamilton and Carla Cohen, characters of the city, each enlightened life within its walls. One stands for the "dialogue of democracy"; the other stood for a conversational dialogue between authors and readers. They belong to the same very smart (but small) American generation, born in hard times in the 1930s.
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The Iraq War Came and Went But Facebook Is Here to Stay
Tweet Share on Facebook October 4, 2010 Comment (6)OK, my friends, I went to see The Social Network in Georgetown Saturday afternoon all alone, and I didn't even mind. Quite an admission, I know--and maybe a metaphor for the times. You tell me.
