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Presidential trips are not the novelties they used to be, but they remain a particularly American spectacle. There are movement and excitement, new sights and sounds, the grace of the plane that carries the President. It is in its way a descendant of the Conestoga wagons and the elegant sailing...
Judith ("Josie") Bissell, 33, whose husband Silas is a descendant of the carpet-cleaner family. She graduated with a degree in fine arts from the University of Pennsylvania in 1967 and was arrested with Silas in 1970 on charges of planting a Molotov cocktail at the University of Washington Air...
Many outside observers argue that the conflict now stems from "social" or "economic" factors, religion having lost its prior importance. In fact, the "troubles" remain religious. This is how it is perceived by the people of Ulster, who are deeply religious and who accord a certain preeminence to their beliefs...
Members of the Tribe has its awkwardnesses. The long courtroom section, which might be a novel in itself, requires a new narrator, Adler's daughter. A concluding chapter introduces a contemporary Adler descendant who hastily ties the book to the present. The author makes no pronouncements about why Christian...
Francesco Scavullo photographed dozens of famous women for his book Scavullo on Beauty. He also posed and interviewed the opposite sex for his upcoming sequel Scavullo Men. What's left? Dogs. Scavullo, 47, is now shooting formal portraits of everybody's favorite collie, Lassie, the sixth descendant of...