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BUT THE BEST of Robison's stories, the ones that remain in memory like "Coach" and "The Wellman Twins," present situations filled with incidental pleasures and characters who find purpose beyond the bare outlines of their lives. In "The Wellman Twins," the twins Bluey and Greer have shared a game...
"You can't go out and just whomp it up. You have to be prepared," says James A. Michener, by way of explaining how he produces his blockbuster historical novels. In preparing for Poland, his 31st book, he has applied the formula that served him well in previous novels...
That "the approach of the Jews towards the Palestinians has been genocidal from the very beginning..." is an absolute lie. On the contrary, the PLO Covenant calls for the destruction of Israel (That is their goal. Their objectives are thus not as benign as the Crimson quotes would indicate, which...
A hardy and fiercely independent people, the Maronites struggled to preserve their culture through hundreds of years of foreign rule, first by the Arab caliphs (632-1258) and then by the Ottoman Turks. In the late 19th century, following a devastating massacre at the hands of the Druze sect, the...
Gemayel's task will be gravely complicated by Lebanon's crazy-quilt of political and religious factionalism. Under the terms of a national covenant worked out in 1943 when Lebanon became independent from France, the Christians are the dominant political force in Parliament, although the Muslims are now...