'Hillary!' TV Show: Clinton Defense Secretary Rumors Thicken Plot
Network TV shows met their fates in May. To the dismay of television fans, several long-running series rolled credits on their last original episodes. "Lost" got lost on ABC. NBC lowered the gavel on "Law & Order." Fox decided "24" had run out of time. On a personal note, even my sister Meredith Stiehm's "Cold Case" got left in the cold after seven seasons on CBS. Set here in Washington, however, we have a drama series playing that's not likely to be canceled anytime soon. Though made for television, this political show airs in real time, with assorted character arcs, high production values ...
The Pill's Pioneers: Thank You, Margaret Sanger, Dr. Djerassi, Et Al
Dear Margaret & Katharine, Dr. Rock & Dr. Djerassi, My generation has a special debt of gratitude to the Pill pioneers. Please accept warm thanks as the least we can do for your splendid efforts. Imagine it addressed in a flowing hand, sealed with wax and a kiss to each of you for making the world safer for love. We are not yet 50, Barack Obama and I, but we belong to the first American generation to come of age with a safe and legal birth control pill. How about that? Historians consider 1961, the year John F. Kennedy was inaugurated, as the cusp of a new post-Baby Boomer cohort. It was ...
Yeardley Love Slaying: Is Lacrosse's Close Culture Complicit?
The late Yeardley Love, by all accounts a vibrant 22-year-old, could only have come from Baltimore. Her name could not be a better clue to the class identity of this University of Virginia slaying victim, found dead in her bedroom early Monday. The strangely Southern city of Baltimore is the only place I know that gives girls odd family names at birth and little lacrosse sticks to grow up by. To paraphrase the great coach Vince Lombardi, lacrosse is the only thing to many families who send their children to single-sex private schools in the green northern reaches of the city. Love attended ...
Sisters in Reading: A Page From the Millennial Book Club
The Millennial Book Club was established in Baltimore on Jan. 9, 2000 in my apartment. Three of the six founders were Baltimore Sun reporters, and the other three were "found" through the newspaper. The then-editor, John Carroll, introduced me to Laura, a cheerful arrival in town from Chicago, and she and I started the club. Now we are nine -- making a full house on the 9th of January, 2010 as we gathered round Laura's fireplace. We discussed "The Awakening," an 1899 American classic by Kate Chopin. Champagne made spirits sparkle at the 10-year mark. Four founding members were among us, none ...
Benjamin L. Hooks, R.I.P. in Memphis
Requiem for a preacher, a lawyer, a judge, a head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Add all that up and it doesn't equal the Rev. Benjamin L. Hooks, who died at 85 in his native Memphis, Tennessee by the waters of the Mississippi River this week. Rest in peace. One writer whose life he graced will never forget his kindness to a stranger. As a journalist, I interviewed the Baptist Rev. Hooks and his striking wife Frances in Maryland on the Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday a few years ago. Rev. Hooks looked like a fragile octogenarian and I wondered if he ...
David Remnick's Obama Biography: A Bit Much, a Bit Too Soon
Let's say you're the editor of The New Yorker, and there's no better writer than you who's younger than you -- with the possible exception of Barack Obama, born in the summer of 1961. David Remnick, the editor and author with a few years on the president, has now written Obama's story in no less than 586 pages. Is this too long for such a short life? Not if someone feels history calling him. ...
Save Our Post Office: Why Privatizing This Treasure Is a Bad Idea
I'd say a country's postal service is an excellent indicator of how civilized it is -- and there is no place like England for that. You can mail a letter in London in the morning and it will arrive somewhere else in the city in time for tea that afternoon. Pretty brilliant. Our U.S. Postal Service is precious, too -- established by the Founding Fathers in 1789 to spread democracy and dialogue among the 13 states. I love the little things about the post office, like a hand cancel (an ink stamp and a keepsake of when and where a letter originated). And in my book, 44 cents is a small price to ...
A History of Our Own: Lucretia Mott's Vision for Women Is Realized at Last
History happened during Women's History Month this year. That is to say, March was no ordinary Women's History Month at our citadel of democracy, the United States Capitol. Consider the jubilant scene last Thursday as Speaker Nancy Pelosi celebrated her 70th birthday by embracing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at a reception in Statuary Hall marking Women's History Month. Pelosi had skillfully kept almost all of her Democratic members on the same page to deliver a winning vote for health care reform the weekend before. Clinton had just come back from Moscow, where the United States and ...
Washington Survives a Bitter Winter, and So Does the President
Daffodils dance all over Washington's weary neighborhoods, proof that we city dwellers survived the hardest, coldest winter since 1899. No one's more grateful, I suspect, than the man who lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Barack Obama, who weathered a political storm that tested everything he had. I have just the story for Obama to read to his daughters Malia and Sasha to bring home how the past three months tried the souls of us all. This winter has some intriguing parallels to my favorite Laura Ingalls Wilder book. The eleventh-hour health care vote in the House resonates with a story set on ...
Health Care's Fate Is Moment of Truth for 'No Drama Obama'
Aides nicknamed the president "No Drama Obama" as a compliment during the 2008 campaign. Barack Obama is certainly cool under pressure, but "Obama's Drama" is happening right now: he needs a win and he knows it. He's starting to speak his piece loud and clear, just what people wanted to hear . . . last year. It's the drama of his lifetime, one that the Bard set the stage for. This is like Henry V before the Battle of Agincourt against France, where he and his band of brothers, "we happy few," proved the leader's mettle. Charm, charisma, good looks, eloquence: these things are not good enough ...
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