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When Sudden Death Takes A President, Opportunities For New Beginnings Flourish Among The Ambitious And The Tensions Among Such People Can Be Dramatic, As They Were When President Kennedy Was Killed.

Poetry Is So Vital To Us Until School Spoils It.

It Takes Great Self-confidence To Write A Newspaper Column. Some Might Say It Takes Arrogance. Be That As It May, My Willingness To Pronounce On A Great Many Matters Of Which I Have Little Or No Knowledge Is One Of My Prime Qualifications For This Trade.

American Foreign Policy Had Still Not Recovered From Its Victory Over Communism When George W. Bush And Condoleezza Rice Took Over At The White House In 2001.

After That [father's Death] I Never Cried With Any Real Conviction, Nor Expected Much Of Anyone's God Except Indifference, Nor Loved Deeply Without Fear That It Would Cost Me Dearly In Pain. At The Age Of Five I Had Become A Skeptic And Began To Sense That Any Happiness That Came My Way Might Be The Prelude To Some Grim Cosmic Joke.