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...book, however-Chiune: In Search of Sugihara, by Boston University sociology and religion professor Hillel Levine-has become a touchstone for controversy. Part biography, part spiritual quest, Chiune ponders the way history forces an ordinary man to make extraordinary choices. Levine sees heroism in Sugihara's defiant issuance of visas, yet his version of Sugihara remains a complex and flawed creature-a man with a weakness for women and wine, and whose job included spying on Russia...
Sorrowful, defiant, astonished, lonely, thoughtful, humiliated, triumphant. Photographers captured the full range of moods in their subjects. An aging prelate, bent and frail, visited his homeland; an American President, coatless and determined, rallied his troops. In the Middle East, where few things shock, a Palestinian leader stared bug-eyed at his bed, speckled with debris after an Israeli attack. A teenager from Great Neck, N.Y., skated off the Olympic ice into the arms of her coach, with a look that told all the world she was a winner. And in the most touching coda to the year, a young widow...
...music. The lives of America's two grandest pop divas have become as scandalously compelling as an Aaron Spelling script. But their songs, as demonstrated above, have not. Carey's Charmbracelet and Houston's Just Whitney ... offer decidedly different approaches to the pop comeback; one is penitent, the other defiant. Both are letdowns...
...Culture: Nobelist's Defiant Opera...
...Culture: Nobelist's Defiant Opera...