I asked my dear friend Mimi whether a lady can ever use the F-word. Mimi is a product of old guard propriety, which to me, makes her an impeccable source on these matters. Mimi鈥檚 answer was short: 鈥淣o.鈥滲ut she wanted to elaborate. 鈥淲ell,鈥� she added, 鈥淚鈥檝e just started using the ...
No one knows whether the recent uprising means the end of President Vladimir Putin鈥檚 control of Russia, just as no one knew before the last few weeks of 1999 that Putin would replace Boris Yeltsin and become Russia鈥檚 leader for the next quarter-century.But everyone knows that the widely ...
In the 231 years since its first ruling, the Supreme Court has never sown more confusion than in the 45 years since it first ruled on the subject of race-based decisions in university admissions. On Thursday, the court found Harvard and the University of North Carolina guilty of doing what the ...
Watergate.Isn鈥檛 that a funny word?How did a word, derived from a 1970s political scandal, which had only been the name of a place in Washington, D.C., become so integrally woven into the fabric of the American lexicon? (ADMISSION: Midway through that sentence, I had no idea how it would ...