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...while pregnant with her son Danny, Kumin recalls, “I made a pact with myself that if I didn’t sell any [poetry] before I had this child, I would give it up.” Three months before Danny’s birth, The Christian Science Monitor accepted a four-line ditty by Kumin—a perhaps-inauspicious beginning to what would become an illustrious professional career...
...anger at all religious extremists reached a fever pitch—from the fundamentalist Jews and Muslims who won’t allow their brethren to achieve peace in the Middle East, to Mel Gibson, to the idea of a new pope who continues to oppose birth control and marriage for priests...
...venality, Jasper has little use for the man. But two other observers provide a less sinister account. Snow Soong, daughter of the biggest Chinese tin magnate in the valley, is a willowy beauty whom Johnny woos and weds through guile and determination. Barely a year later Snow dies giving birth to Jasper, but not before producing a diary that forms the second narrative. It depicts Johnny as a clueless bumpkin whom she can't wait to ditch, probably for a suave, handsome Japanese professor named Kunichika who has befriended her parents...
Christian Dior celebrated his childhood home in his designs, so since 2005 is the centennial of his birth, his childhood home will be celebrating him with a series of summer events in the French town of Granville. It was here, in the picturesque seaside village on the Normandy coast, that the legendary couturier spent many of his early years, and where he developed the deep passion for nature that would strongly influence his fashion and fragrances...
...success, however, occasionally comes at the price of storytelling. Playwright Sharbari Ahmed created a play in which every individual scene works well, but it doesn’t quite mesh. “Raisins, Not Virgins” tells the story of a young New York professional, Muslim by birth but ambivalent about religion, who is pulled in different directions by her pushy yet loving mother, her boyfriend, and his family...