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'Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World' by Eileen McNamara. Simon & Schuster (New York, 2018). 416 pp., $28.

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The Prebble adventure: Reading I’ve Been Thinking, a quarter century on Essay For all its faults, writes Danyl Mclauchlan (whose new book Tranquillity and Ruin is itself published this week), the Labour-turned-ACT politician’s 1996 books speaks for something that now seems almost old-fashioned: a group of true believers that had a vision of how the world works. Read Richard Prebble’s reflections on I’ve Been Thinking, 25 years on, here They were called “Choose Your Own Adventures”, and they were a publishing craze back in the 1980s. They were novels – mostly for kids and teens �...

Up this legislation that will be introduced this week and probably taken up in january. >> how is the legislation being received by your fellow members right now? do you expect to get a vote in january? >> i do expect to get a vote. in fact it's a bipartisan measure being crafted right now by the chair of the you house administration committee, mr. harper. they're taking most of the elements, in fact all of the elements of the metoo congress act i introduced a couple weeks ago and enhancing it somewhat. and i think it'll be a very sound proposal that will pass the house and move to the senate ...

President obama's supreme court nominee is not just a liberal but a radical. a socialist. or will be when the republicans get through with him or her. does that mean the president is free to nominate someone who actually is a liberal? and you've heard of republican chicken hawks. meet the chicken doc. she thinks her health care plan is finger-licking good. that will make sense later. and the geico announcer is fired, that's all ahead on "countdown." een thinking... no. you know how... no. so, doc, i've got this friend... [ male announcer ] talking to your doctor about erectile dysfunction ...