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The French Resistance did not encourage the participation of women--which is all the more a tribute to the determination of Andrée De Jongh. As a twentysomething Belgian nurse, she helped found the Comet Line, a route subsequently used by 400 Allied soldiers (118 of whom she personally accompanied...
And how. Ask a parent who has tried to buy tickets for her tour, which sold out in minutes and have fetched more than $1,000 from scalpers. (The reselling--legal in most states--prompted outrage and lawsuits, giving kids a lesson in the American pillars of capitalism and litigation...
For his band of urchins, that meant a cunning, methodical pursuit of food and shelter. They worked together like raptors, one child distracting the street vendor so another could steal the fruit. Capecchi finally landed in a hospital in Reggio Emilia, where he could starve more systematically. The daily ration...
Denis Johnson could not have chosen a more fitting title for his newest novel, “Tree of Smoke.†The novel is nearly as thick as a tree, reaching the epic length of 614 pages. And those hundreds of pages seem to contain nothing more than...
Only a handful of monks escape the junta's dragnet to join that day's demonstration near the Sule Pagoda. But there are thousands of protesters when I arrive. More military trucks pull up at the intersection, and the troops inside noisily cock their rifles. The crowd tenses as one...