While the high visibility of my public life has not always brought me personal peace and happiness, it has lent a certain universal quality to my various metamorphoses.
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Shimon Peres: Israel’s Elder Statesman Skirts the Hot Issues
Perhaps it’s the dignity of the office that restrains Shimon Peres. Perhaps it’s personal decorum.
Extinction in a Bowl of Shark-Fin Soup
The first time I tried shark-fin soup was at Time Warner’s annual dinner in Hong Kong, a few weeks after I had moved to the city. A server came to our table with a cluster of small white bowls, which a few of my colleagues politely declined.
Oprah Winfrey: Lady with a Calling
It is half an hour before showtime, and Oprah Winfrey is a lake of calm amid the gusts of activity around her.
MUHAMMAD ALI: The Greatest
Oliver Wendell Holmes once observed that every profession is great that is greatly pursued. Boxing in the early ’60s, largely controlled by the Mob, was in a moribund state until Muhammad Ali–Cassius Clay, in those days–appeared on the scene
America’s Obesity Crisis:Are You Responsible for Your Own Weight?
PRO Absolutely.
PC vs. Mac Holiday Shopping: Which Computer Type Is Best?
PC or Mac? It’s the longest-running question in personal technology — along with the Mac itself, the debate turns 27 next month — and probably the most contentious one
Education: THE CYNICAL IDEALISTS OF ’68
THE troubled and troublesome college Class of 1968 tends to have a sober, even tragic view of life. They were high school seniors in the year that John Kennedy, a politician who gained their trust and inspired their ambitions, was shot to death in Dallas.
10 Questions for Robin Williams
In the play Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, you’re the tiger, who becomes a ghost. How does one prepare to play that?
Mikhail Gorbachev
In 1985, when the first rumblings of Gorbachev’s thunder disturbed the moldy Soviet silence, the holy fools on the street–the people who always gather at flea markets and around churches–predicted that the new Czar would rule seven years. They assured anyone interested in listening that Gorbachev was “foretold in the Bible,” that he was an apocalyptic figure: he had a mark on his forehead