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...include bringing handsome people--some of them silly, some of them wise, some of them rich, some of them poor--together in a variety of pleasing settings, arranging many misunderstandings and misalliances, equally productive of amusing conversations and embarrassing situations, then sorting everyone and everything out in the last chapter or act. It's a formula amply on display not only in Sense and Sensibility but also in Hollywood's major romantic offering of the Christmas season, Sabrina...
...discussion of issues such as crime and gender relations, Dyson frequently brings in his personal experience. The book's first chapter is an open letter to his brother, who was convicted of murder several years ago, and is serving a life sentence in prison. The last is an openhearted letter to his wife, whom he married after a series of failed relationships. When Dyson writes, "The important thing is that as black men, as black brothers, we learn to embrace each other despite the differences that divide us," he's speaking not just from the pulpit but from experience...
...conclusion is very depressing. Feminism as an 'ism' has sort of gone," Schor says of the book's last chapter, which is titled "Depression...
...shape organisms that appeared tens of millions of years before the beginning of the Cambrian, then seemingly died out. Are these puzzling life-forms - which Yale University paleobiologist Adolf Seilacher dubbed the "vendobionts" - linked somehow to the creatures that appeared later on, or do they represent a totally separate chapter in the history of life...
...dark chapter in South Africa's past will be dredged Friday when Afrikaner general Magnus Andre de Merindol Malan goes on trial for the 1987 massacre of 13 women and children in the Zulu village of KwaMakutha. TIME's Peter Hawthorne reports that conservatives in South Africa are incensed that Malan and 10 other top military figures are being charged with setting up the hit-squad responsible for killings during the apartheid struggle. At the same time, former African National Congress leaders Thabo Mbeki and Joe Modise have been granted temporary immunity while a "Truth Commission," headed by Archbishop Desmond...