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...what if he were right? Flemish author Paul Verhaeghen explores that possibility - and galaxies of others - in Omega Minor, his sprawling, provocative, nuclear nightmare of a novel. After appearing in the Netherlands and his native Belgium in 2004, and Germany in 2006, the book spent months on best-seller lists and won a periodic table of European literary awards. Verhaeghen gained further notoriety by declining his prize money to protest the Bush Administration's conduct of the Iraq...
...travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive." During the long, bitter years when Gordon Brown hungered for the top job in British politics, he'd never have agreed with this sentiment framed by a fellow Scot, 19th century author Robert Louis Stevenson. After Brown finally collected the keys to 10 Downing Street on June 27, his first three months in office exceeded expectations - his and his country's. Many Britons, even those who rejoiced at Tony Blair's exit, had worried that their brainy, brawny Chancellor of the Exchequer was too complex and introspective to make an effective...
...understand that you have been a staunch supporter of the Hinchey-Rohrabacher amendment to stop the prosecution of medical marijuana users, and that it has failed to get through Congress since its conception in 2003. And you were also the author of the States’ Right to Medical Marijuana Act. So you’re a pretty big supporter of medicinal marijuana. I wonder, when did you become so politically inclined about the herb? College...
Rodger Kamenetz is an award-winning author whose books include the bestselling “The Jew in the Lotus” and “Stalking Elijah,” which won the National Jewish Book Award. His latest book, “The History of Last Night’s Dream: Discovering the Hidden Path to the Soul,” is a journey into the intellectual and cultural history of dreams, which ultimately leads to truths about our world and ourselves. Kamenetz is a professor of English and religious studies at Louisiana State University...
...Venezuela vote may also give other Latin American countries - especially Colombia, Bolivia and Ecuador - second thoughts about giving their own Presidents more if not unlimited terms.) Unlimited reelection was arguably the proposal that repelled voters most, and to ignore that reality would only invite trouble. Instead, says Bart Jones, author of a new Chvez biography, !Hugo!, it's time for Chvez and chavistas "to stop thinking about the Bolivarian Revolution as a one-man show and start cultivating other leaders." Alberto Barrera, co-author of another biography, Hugo Chvez, agrees: "Chavistas have unfortunately reached that ideological point...