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...against just about all of Iran's leaders. Soon they were joined by like-minded nonstudents. The protest wound down at about 1 in the morning--but the next evening, even more demonstrators gathered, some 3,000. By the end of the week, the protests had become a nightly affair, and pro-clergy vigilantes had retaliated by storming a dormitory and injuring 50 students. "Our society now is like a room full of gas," proclaimed Hadi Kahhal Zadeh, a member of the Office to Foster Unity, Iran's largest student organization, "ready to ignite with a small spark...
...drawn to aerobatics, which he compares to aerial figure skating, with the following caveat: "When was the last time Kristy Yamaguchi burst into flames in the middle of a Salchow?" In No Visible Horizon (Simon & Schuster; 273 pages), Ramo, a former TIME editor, tells the story of his love affair with a sport that in a bad year, by his estimate, can kill 1 in 30 of its practitioners. Ramo buys a plane and learns to spin, loop, roll and do all three simultaneously at hundreds of miles per hour. He makes pilgrimages to obscure Midwestern airfields for aerobatics competitions...
...mansion at Christmas showcasing homemade ornaments, gushing over the pastry chef as he prepared a State Dinner, going on a heritage tour with Ralph Lauren, publishing a book on entertaining at the White House. But none of that rehabilitated her public image. It took her husband's humiliating, reckless affair to turn the tide. Even then, Hillary at first instinctively resisted any sympathy for standing by her man. Once she finally accepted it, she won the widespread popularity that had always eluded her. Wooing county chairmen from Utica and Poughkeepsie, and mastering the arcana of dairy price supports...
...chosen by her father. In Britain, she lives the soporific life of an Asian housewife, raising two daughters (after a son dies in infancy) and attending to her undemanding, if uninspiring, husband. Years - and far too many pages - pass uneventfully before Nazneen shakes off her torpor to conduct an affair with a younger man slightly less feckless than her husband. Eventually, she dumps both men and strikes out on her own, but so timidly that her independence seems doomed. Nazneen's life is contrasted with that of her sister Hasina back in Bangladesh, whose story is told through her letters...
Aside from this personal milestone, Lurie said he will also remember this year for the HRCF affair and for his unsuccessful bid for the presidency of the Council...