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Human rights organizations refer to Doe's decade in power as a reign of terror. His government was brutal and corrupt; the country is nearly $2 billion in debt and virtually bankrupt. It is not certain, however, that Taylor will be an improvement. While he talks about free elections, he does not specify when they might take place...
What most sets people on edge about Si Newhouse is not his demand for profit or his wielding of authority but the coarse and sometimes brutal fashion in which he imposes his will. In 1987 he dumped William Shawn, editor of the New Yorker since 1952, barely a year after describing Shawn as one of the three most influential men in his life. Having been widely lambasted for letting Grace Mirabella learn of her 1988 ouster from Vogue through a TV report by gossip columnist Liz Smith, Si diligently informed Anthea Disney in person last year that she was through...
Despite its often brutal subject matter -- one student hangs himself -- this is an upbeat book about triumphing against the odds. Freedman offers moving portraits of two immigrant kids -- one Chinese, the other Dominican -- battling to make it in their adopted country. He also captures the rewards of teaching, while exposing the hardships. Considering the obstacles confronting Seward's teachers and their students, Freedman's book may be misnamed. The victories seem large indeed...
Koreans hoped for an abject apology for Japan's brutal occupation of their country from 1910 to 1945. What they got instead was the Emperor's lukewarm expression of "deepest regret...
...doctors and nurses, plus technicians, social workers and paramedics, employed by roughly 5,700 emergency departments nationwide. Last year they treated 90 million patients for everything from hangnails to heart attacks. In the busiest hospitals, emergency-room personnel minister to an average of 200 patients in a single, brutal twelve-hour shift, while stretchers stack up in the waiting rooms, hallways and even closets. Staffers eat large meals before going on duty, since there will be no breaks once they start. They treat wounds they hoped never to see outside a war zone: it is to Los Angeles, which...