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Bush turned down hundreds of personal-appearance requests that were deemed "unpresidential" by aides, but the Clintonites say they will agree to almost anything. "The weirder, the better," said a booker. In early February Clinton appeared in a promotional teaser for a sports-blooper show on a TV station in Birmingham, Alabama. "Just watching one of my regular White House jogs would make your Hall of Shame," plugged Clinton...
...number of international prizes, including the Somerset Maugham Award for Metroland (published in 1980) as well as the French Prix Medicis. His name is invoked in hushed reverential tones whenever there is speculation about candidates for the Booker Prize (Britain's prestigious literary award). He acknowledges that he is not writing for the average library borrower (or one suspects the little old lady from Dubuque), yet his work is not inaccessible...
...also established himself as one of the most inspired chroniclers, and exemplars, of the new cross-cultural mix taking shape all around us, able to light up Salman Rushdie-land with a visual daring that must have moviemakers salivating. Two weeks ago, The English Patient won England's prestigious Booker Prize, sharing the award for best novel of the year with Barry Unsworth's Sacred Hunger...
Last year's winner of Britain's esteemed Booker Prize, THE FAMISHED ROAD (Doubleday; $22.50), is a long, winding allegorical novel that draws no line between fact and fantasy. The Nigerian-born, London-based Ben Okri explores the spiritual interior of an African nation struggling to reconcile its traditions with modern dislocations. Sorcerers, ghosts and two-legged dogs mingle with villagers and politicians in this hallucinatory narrative that reconnects Nigeria to its origins. Okri's uncompromising vision and verbal energy carry him swiftly through 500 pages. The reader too moves along, although a little less magic and a bit more...
Soon after, the Harrison County board of supervisors passed an ordinance prohibiting the operation of an abortion clinic within 500 ft. of a church, school, kindergarten or funeral home. There are two churches close by Booker's building. Four of the five hospitals in the Gulfport-Biloxi region have denied Booker admitting rights that would guarantee his patients a bed in the event of complications. For good measure, the local power company has refused to provide electricity to his unfinished clinic until he secures the building permit he cannot...