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...Good Benito...
Alan Lightman's second published work of fiction, Good Benito, feels a lot like a first novel. Arguably it is, since this book reads much more like a novel than did Lightman's 1993 book Einstein's Dreams, a series of fictional meditations on time. It seems probable that Good Benito is, like many first novels, fairly autobiographical, since the book tells the story of a physicist, Bennett Lang, who grows up in Memphis, Tennessee and then comes to the East Coast, while Lightman grew up in Memphis and teaches physics at M.I.T. But the real reason the book feels...
...Austen Chamberlain, Aristide Briand, Benito Mussolini, Eduard Benes
...eyes of the Western world, Vladimir Zhirinovsky is a loudmouth megalomaniac somewhere between Benito Mussolini and Archie Bunker. Rising from the murk of obscurity in post-Cold War Soviet politics, Zhirinovsky pulled himself out of the depths with threaRTLÄo restore Russia's imperial borders, retake Alaska, partition Poland and even employ large fans to blow radioactive waste across Russia and into the Baltic states. Such threats had become trademark Zhirinovsky moves, ignored by many. But since last December when Zhirinovsky's Liberal Democratic Party captured 25% of the vote in the party preference poll, Russian liberals...
...almost universal truth that children who have been sick most of thier lives possess a wisdom and maturity beyond their years. Benito Agrelo, 15, possesses both -- and plenty of spunk to boot. When social workers arrived with five police cars and two ambulances at his Coral Springs, Florida, home, they planned to force the boy, who is dying of liver failure, to go to the hospital. But Benny, who has already undergone two liver transplants, told them he wanted to be left alone to live out whatever remained of his life in peace. The 5-ft. 2-in. teenager...