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A Fall in the Night
He fell in the middle of the night. A hard crash that woke me up. At first I thought he fell out of bed. He has done that a couple ...
The Going-To-The-Hospital Blues
I have been spending a lot of time at a hospital lately. Too damn much time, one might say. And because I am not the patient, I’ve had time to ...
Let’s Talk Turkey
Most of us know something about Thanksgiving, that most American of holidays, but not the whole story. We know the holiday has something to do with the Pilgrims celebrating a ...
Ruby End
‘I still don’t believe Lee was the lone gunman,” says Marina Oswald Porter, the widow of President Kennedy’s assassin. She talked to me on the 45th anniversary of Lee Harvey ...
Clinton in the Cabinet?
Is President-Elect Obama reading Doris Kearn Goodwin’s Team of Rivals or is he watching the boxed set of the seventh season of The West Wing? Why do I ask? Because ...
Not So Desperate
I loved the first season of Desperate Housewives. When certain prissy types were criticizing the show for having the shapely stars parade around in revealing lingerie too often, I defended ...
In the Belly of the Beast: No Bias Here!
Last night The Week held a dinner and discussion at the Rainbow Room moderated by Sir Harry Evans. The subject was “The Media and the Presidency.” The panel included Dan ...
Honest Harry
Three cheers for my old pal Harry Evans. Over the weekend Sir Harry, the esteemed former editor of the London Times and the London Sunday Times, handed out some rare ...
Fear of McCaining
Need a laugh? I think we all do, and novelist Erica Jong, who wrote one successful novel and a lot of flops, recently supplied one. As reported in the New ...