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...KING'S CASTLE In November, Rodale will publish "The Content of My Character" by Yolanda King, the eldest daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. According to the author's publisher, Yolanda revisits her father's dream of racial equality, "in the context of her own life as a modern black woman." Ten city tour...
...become a brutal form of negotiation. Vice President Dick Cheney joined Zinni in Israel Monday in an urgent effort to arrange a cease-fire, and Israel's military withdrawal overnight from recently reoccupied Palestinian areas suggested the mission was making progress. But while the U.S. and Israel might be content with simply avoiding a repeat of the bloodbath of the past two weeks, Yasser Arafat needs more - a resumption of fast-track negotiations for a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza. And unlikely as it may have seemed a month ago, Arafat now holds the strategic cards...
...been giving awards for picturesqueness, Klee would have been a nonstarter. And in all those thousands of works, to which Klee gave code numbers indicating their date and price range and his opinion of their quality, there is hardly one that has any discernible sexual content at all, no secret genitals or nipples that even the dirtiest-minded brat could ferret out. This has always helped to make him a great favorite with worried modernist parents and ensured that reproductions of his work, such as They're Biting, 1920, outnumber even those of Rousseau's jungle scenes in the nurseries...
Jamaica Kincaid arrived in America when she was only 17, leaving behind her native country of Antigua, her family and her christened name, Elaine Potter Richardson. Kincaid’s heritage and poetic style, coupled with the heavily autobiographical content of her work, have established her greatness in contemporary writing. She preserves the outsider’s perspective on her homeland of Antigua and the equally foreign landscape of America, at times juxtaposing both to catch a glimpse of a universal human nature...
...PSLM members said they took issue with both the wording and the content of the letter...