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Lessing is a genuinely sui generis literary phenomenon, inexhaustible and defiantly unique - her oeuvre runs to over 40 books. Her principal theme is the experience of women in contemporary society, which she addressed most ambitiously, and successfully, in The Golden Notebook, her 12th novel, published in 1962. A formal tour de force, The Golden Notebook is the story of a divorced writer named Anna Wulf told through her four notebooks, each of which is concerned with recording a different aspect of herself. Brilliant, autobiographical and feverishly experimental, it's a bravura portrait of a shattered self, richly adorned with ruthless...
...been an improbable one. Her parents were English, and her father sought his fortune as a bank clerk in Persia, then as a bush farmer in Rhodesia, with limited success. Lessing bridled at their strict Edwardian mores and left school at 13 - that was the end of her formal education, although she continued to read voraciously. She left home at 15, moved to England and became associated with the Communist movement. Her writing career began in earnest in 1950 with her first novel, The Grass Is Singing...
...nuclear program by the end of the year in exchange for 950,000 tons of fuel oil or the equivalent in economic aid. And at this month's summit in Pyongyang between Kim and South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun, the two nations agreed to pursue a formal peace treaty to officially end the Korean War and made broad, if vague, plans for increased economic cooperation...
...Quoting from both holy texts, the letter notes that "whilst Islam and Christianity are obviously different religions - and whilst there is no minimizing some of their formal differences," both require believers to believe in only one god, and it's the same god. It points out that both religions are founded on goodwill, not violence, and that many of the fundamental truths that were revealed to Muhammad - such as the necessity for the total devotion to God, the rejection of false gods, and the love of fellow human beings - are the same ones that came to other Christian and Jewish...
...came close, too bad.’” says Berkowitz, who later claimed that misconduct had occurred during his tenure review. With the advice and support of Weld Professor of Law Charles R. Nesson, Berkowitz appealed using Harvard’s internal grievance procedures. In a formal grievance to Dean Knowles and the elected members of the Docket Committee in early 1999, Berkowitz alleged that four of the five members of the ad hoc committee assembled to advise Rudenstine “showed bias, conflict of interest, or lack of expertise.” Later that year, however...