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...wonder so many American artists have written, sung, painted and even gone round the bend, gone mad, in the name of rivers. In his overboard essay on Huck and Jim, Leslie Fiedler wrote that the river supports "the American dream of isolation afloat." Out of that isolation in motion comes every inspiration, from contemplation (Langston Hughes' "The Negro Speaks of Rivers") to adventure (Hemingway's stories) to despair. The poet John Berryman looked down into the Mississippi and jumped to his death. The river is expanse, but it is also loneliness; Huck finds a loving relationship with...
...team was led by Nation editor Priscilla Painton, who edited the package, and our aptly named Special Projects editor Barrett Seaman, a former Navy man, who coordinated logistics and kept us in line. Other key crew members included photographer Diana Walker; Nancy Gibbs, who wrote the overview Essay; and our Midwest bureau chief Ron Stodghill and Southern bureau chief Timothy Roche, who coordinated the task of scouting out stories...
John's father said, "Life is unfair." There's an essay question: Has life been unfair to the Kennedys? Discuss. (Give due attention to both sides of the question). Was life unfair to John...
...article by Charles Krauthammer on Bush's nuclear doctrine [ESSAY, June 12] brings to mind a history lesson gone bad. Just because we aren't in a cold war anymore, we don't have the right to abandon our arms agreements. The idea that we are the biggest and baddest and thus we can do what we want is idiocy. We need to treat others the way we want to be treated and to set the example of taking a responsible leadership role in the world community. E. TERRY LEWIS Binghamton...
Amartya Sen's piece "Will There Be Any Hope for the Poor?" [ESSAY, May 22] rang true. The urgent inquiry is, How do we help the poor now in ways that get underneath the crust of political corruption, economic dysfunction or cultural abuse? One answer is by assisting them on a very practical and intimate basis at the local grass-roots level. For 29 years, our humanitarian organization has been providing small loans, called microcredit, to the working poor in 25 developing countries. These loans, for little or no collateral, help a poor mother start a little business...