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...Omaha Blues” is, in theory, the kind of memoir that justifies its existence almost without effort. Lelyveld has lived an exciting life against the backdrop of a hazily understood but intriguing childhood. Shuffled among relatives in Omaha, New York, and Alabama before matriculating at Harvard, he went on to work at the New York Times...
...terrorist sings not one but two songs about how he blew up a train on which, unknown to him, his wife and son were passengers; this is by no means the unlikeliest coincidence in which he is involved. An aging comedian whose sight is failing wanders into a backdrop (he has also somehow lost his sense of direction) and, fearing the loss of his job, shoots himself. Apparently neither he nor anyone else in the show has ever heard of eyeglasses. The capable cast, led by an energized Ben Vereen, tries to distract the audience from the story's cheap...
Against that stark backdrop, representatives of 49 nations gathered in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa last week for the annual meeting of the Organization of African Unity. Delegates noted at the outset that an estimated 150 million Africans in 36 countries suffer from food shortages and for once, the O.A.U. leaders subordinated political differences to concentrate on solving their common problem. The group resolved to "get to the root of Africa's food and agricultural crisis" by developing crash and long-range programs. Sudan's leader, General Abdul Rahman Suwar al Dahab, told the group that Western emergency relief...
...sleeve missing; and of wax models of victims walking as if stunned or asleep, their arms held out in front of them. Their skin hangs loose on their bones, like ill-fitting clothing. Their real clothes are rags. In the display case they stand blank-eyed against a backdrop of a wasteland of ashes and a fire-streaked sky. "It is the way people really looked," Kawamoto says. "They did not seem to walk voluntarily; they appeared to be pushed...
...first placement should be the last placement,” said Pecora. “The average age a person leaves home is 25. People are taking longer to reach adulthood, finish school and have children. Given that backdrop, why would we expect that someone who has faced the challenges of the welfare system to be fully self-sufficient by age eighteen...