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That friend, Roberta Lee, grew up with Thernstrom in the small town of Lexington, Mass. Both literarily inclined children of professors, the two maintained a deeply personal and prolific correspondence when Lee went to college in northern California. In her first year at UC Berkeley, Lee suddenly disappeared. Thernstrom immediately...
Scientists do not expect to find a single chemical that can prevent all types of cancer. But they hope to discover a variety of compounds that could be useful for people who, because of their heredity or life-style, are known to be highly susceptible to particular kinds of malignancy...
On the other hand, his interaction with the audience is marvelous; Shalhoub clutches one audience member's legs and tries desperately to unload a bust of his uncle which bursts into song whenever it emerges from his pocket. Several of Shalhoub's extended monologues (one consists entirely of coughing) are...
Whatever the realignments in foreign policy, Fahd and his family will find them easier to swallow than the changes in the country's internal order that some Saudis are just beginning to push for. As Prince Salman's cool reaction to the businessmen in Riyadh suggests, the royals show no...
Leave it to the Coen brothers -- the writer-producer-director team who were the film finds of the '80s -- to discover ferocious drama in words, character, atmosphere. Their inspiration for Miller's Crossing was a pair of Dashiell Hammett novels: Red Harvest (which provided the milieu of a corrupt city...