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...American music. Douglas Henry Daniels, a professor of History and Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has spent more than two decades investigating the legend of Lester Young, and the result is his new biography, "Lester Leaps In: The Life and Times of Lester 'Pres' Young" (Beacon Press; 524 pages...
...those who only associate Kashmir with the violence that has claimed tens of thousands of lives, Koul's lovely, elegiac memoir The Tiger Ladies (Beacon Press; 224 pages) shows that the isolated vale in the Himalayas was a heaven before it became a hell. In the simpler pre-partition world of Koul's majestic grandmother and anxious mother, Hindus and Muslims were united by their fiercely unique Kashmiri identity. The greatest threat was a harsh winter and even that, in Koul's lush prose, was to be cherished as a gift...
...maintain any sense of principled authority on the world stage. It may disagree with President Bush over global warming and missile defense, but it sorely needs his moral clarity and strong leadership. Despite the remonstrations of European elites and left-wing international bureaucrats, America is still the brightest beacon for freedom in the world...
...instead, apparently terrified at being labeled a failure, Radcliffe has been overly secretive with the University community about its development and as a result is shortchanging itself from being the beacon of diversity at Harvard that it should...
...past surfaced. "Every time someone watches that film," she said in 1983 hearings for an antipornography civil rights law she inspired, "they are watching me being raped." But survivors of sexual abuse everywhere broke silence because she had. From forced "sex freak of the '70s," she became a beacon of resistance and hope?and changed the debate on pornography forever. Brave, gentle, miraculously resilient and valiant beyond words, Linda never accepted that her violation was constitutionally protected as was her violators' speech. "Why," she asked me, "do pimps' rights matter and mine don't?" Having survived so much and fought...