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Bleak. That's always been the rap against American novelist Richard Yates. Though he has been celebrated as a writer's writer and a consummate craftsman since his death in 1992, even his admirers found his work depressing. Fellow novelist Carolyn See explained it in 1981: "He's not going to get the recognition he truly deserves because to read Yates is as painful as getting all your teeth filed down to the gum with no anesthetic." Joyce Carol Oates agreed, writing in the Nation, "A sad, gray, deathly world - dreams without substance - aging without maturity; this is Yates' world...
...realize this danger. To that end, concerned citizens would do well to inundate their offices with phone calls and petitions as soon as the indictment is announced.Admittedly, even prominent American academics and human-rights activists are divided over the implications of the indictment. Alex de Waal, a senior fellow at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, has argued that an indictment could derail peace negotiations and lead to reprisals against Darfur’s civilian population. But, given the failure of all previous peace negotiations and the already dire situation on the ground in Darfur, this may well be a risk worth...
...Gibbs found himself out of work, with a wife, a newborn son and a job offer in Chicago to work for an upstart U.S. Senate candidate named Barack Obama. Brad Woodhouse, a fellow Democratic operative and sometime fishing buddy, remembers telling Gibbs at the time that Obama could be President one day. There was no way of guessing then how integral a role Gibbs would play in that effort. But it turned out to be a vital one. "There isn't a single decision that the President has formed in the course of his campaign or the presidency that Robert...
...France returning? "Although it already plays an active role within NATO in its present status, full membership would allow it both to fully participate in and shape the planning of NATO's future, as well as its military operations," says Bruno Tertrais, senior research fellow at the French Foundation for Strategic Research in Paris. "That bigger role would correspond better to France's international stature, as well as its status as one of Europe's largest contributors to NATO...
...month during a trip to Moscow, complaining that the U.S. wasn't paying enough rent for the base; the surprising change just happened to come after the Russians, who hate the idea of a permanent U.S. military presence in their backyard, offered $2 billion in aid to their former fellow state in the Soviet Union...