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This admiring but not uncritical biography makes a strong case for I. F. Stone’s relevance to our own time.
It's a lot to expect that the September release of Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol will be the tide that floats all books during the fall publishing season. So it's a good thing that the anticipated follow up to megaseller The Da Vinci Code is far from the only prospect on the literary horizon.
News flash — famine in Russia kills one third of its population.
I remember as a child that whenever the 4th of July rolled around, I would try earnestly to reflect on the significance of the holiday....
Edward Lear's rarely seen Lake District sketches show a young artist following in the footsteps of the great masters, but also finding his own way to produce landscapes that are skilful and accurate yet atmospheric.
Miracles do happen in the Holy Land and one might be happening right now -- ultra Orthodox Jews have joined hands with Muslim and leftist Israelis to save an old Muslim cemetery in the heart of central Jerusalem from becoming rubble under a new Jewish museum.
Harry Gillespie, who lives in Vicksburg, met his youngest great-granddaughter, Gwendolyn Strong, who lives in California, Thursday.
When Netanyahu makes Palestinian recognition of Israel as a “Jewish state” as the cornerstone of his “peace” policy and has Avigdor Lieberman, who calls on record for the transfer of Israeli Arab Palestinians, as the foreign minister of his ruling coalition, he officially raises ethnic cleansing to the level of state policy, says Nicola Nasser .
Dispossession, dislocation and loss did not defeat Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali. Instead, writes his biographer, his buoyant optimism transformed hardship into poetry that reflects the endurance of the human spirit .
He still seems to hate this country. But Omar Shaban won't be leaving anytime soon. "I still have to finish my school," he said in an interview yesterday, when I asked that if he doesn't like it here why doesn't he head back to Lebanon where he grew up. "I am still studying."
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