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...subjects. "England is not laid out like Trinidad. Its life goes on behind closed doors," he notes. "To get material, I've had to travel." What Naipaul conveyed in nonfiction such as An Area of Darkness and The Loss of El Dorado and in his novels Guerrillas and A Bend in the River changed Western perceptions of the underdeveloped world. Free of their colonial keepers, new nations had to confront their own hearts of darkness. In Africa the author found tribalism overgrowing hopes of progress; in India he observed that poverty was more dehumanizing than any modern machine. Eight years...
...says with a hint of dread. "When I'm finished, I do nothing. It takes a week before I even begin to feel tired." To keep in shape, he performs a daily exercise taught to him years ago by a family pundit in Trinidad. It is a difficult yoga bend that leaves the writer arched backward with his head on the floor...
...treated like an inanimate object.Stick out your arm. Open your mouth. Bend over. Noone told me what the tests were for, what theresults were or what they thought might be thecause of my aching stomach...
Foley would bring a very different style of leadership to the job. Where Wright tended to stake out his positions, then bend others to his will, Foley is an instinctive consensus builder. With George Bush still pledging to cooperate more closely than Ronald Reagan did with Democrats on the Hill, Foley's is a style that may be suited to the times...
...talked about the march but didn't come to any decisions," said one leader at Beijing Normal University who spoke on condition of anonymity. "Right now we are savoring this victory. We have made the Communist Party bend...