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...raped her -- she cut off his penis. The organ was surgically reattached, and all's well that ends in media bewitchment: John, acquitted of the rape, appears as a jovial guest on the Howard Stern Show, while Lorena, whose case is still pending, has become something of a feminist folk hero...
...Biography of a Race by David Levering Lewis. The first of a planned two parts, this volume tracks the controversial black intellectual from his middle-class roots in Massachusetts to Paris for the 1918 Pan-African Congress. Lewis reveals the crusading editor and author of The Souls of Black Folk to be an aloof thinker struggling with contradictory ideas about racial inclusion and separatism...
...Tigers on the Brink About 100,000 tigers roamed Asia at the turn of the century; fewer than 5,000 are left, thanks to loss of habitat and the demand for body parts used as folk remedies and exotic foods (example: tiger-penis soup, popular in Taiwan). The South China tiger is ''biologically unrecoverable,'' say experts, and the number of India's Bengal tigers, the world's most populous subspecies, has declined 26% since 1989, to fewer than...
...Rabin was asked by President Carter if he would like to drop by Amy's room and say good night. He said no, he wouldn't. While Rabin labors in the shadow of great nation builders -- David Ben- Gurion and Golda Meir -- Arafat stands alone as a folk hero to his people. The teetotaling vegetarian is conniving, disarming, engaging, and quick with such perfect sound bites as the fact that his favorite cartoon is Tom and Jerry, since the mouse so often wins. He is a master of symbolism: never much of a soldier, he chose a fighting...
...smaller events, which turned into birthday parties and graduations. After going through a garage band phase (with a number titled “Your Mom”), she began to write her own songs. Now she describes her music as on a “gradient between rock and folk.” Fitzgerald spent the next few years recording demos, and eventually signed with Jive Records, the label home to such icons as Britney Spears, *NSYNC and R. Kelly. “When I met with the president of Jive, I sat across from him and I wanted...