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...truth. The rash of fraud infected the New York Times seven months later, when its Sunday magazine published a report from Cambodia by Freelancer Christopher Jones. In fact, Jones had written the story while at his home in Spain and for part of it had plagiarized a 1930 novel, André Malraux's La Voie Royale...
...congress, following Mitterrand's lead, was that rigor had to be sustained for another year or more, but that ways must be found to ease the pain of economic sacrifice. Mitterrand and the party leadership were responding to pressure from trade unions and Socialist rank and file. André Bergeron, leader of Force Ouvrière, an independent but largely pro-Socialist labor confederation, warned that "the government has reached limits that cannot be exceeded without jeopardizing the social equilibrium...
...life lived by Dashiell Hammett, creator of The Thin Man and The Maltese Falcon. A voracious reader of Henry James, before he switched to the school of hard knocks, Hammett wrote four novels in a single burst of creativity from 1927 to 1930. He found himself hailed by André Gide and André Malraux, and invited to work in Hollywood...
...year later, Marsalis has issued a new jazz album, Think of One (title track courtesy Thelonious Monk), and, concurrently, a piece of classical virtuosity, three trumpet concertos (Haydn, Leopold Mozart and Hummel). And Marsalis just seems to be warming up. Remarked the classical trumpet virtuoso Maurice André": "He is potentially the greatest trumpeter of all time...
...like me. This species of solipsism-plural solipsism, if you like-is far more common because it is far less lonely. Indeed, it yields a very congenial world populated exclusively by creatures of one's own likeness, a world in which Lincoln pines for his dinner with André or, more consequentially, where KGB chiefs and Iranian ayatullahs are, well, folks just like...