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DIED. C.P. ELLIS, 78, whose transformation from Ku Klux Klan Grand Cyclops to civil rights activist was chronicled in the book The Best of Enemies and the film An Unlikely Friendship; in Durham, N.C. The cause of the shift: a 1971 community forum on violence as Durham tried to integrate its schools. Over 10 days of talks, he became so close to his adversary and co-chair, desegregationist Ann Atwater, that he denounced the Klan and joined her efforts...
...above a little mischief. He gives a guide a copy of George Orwell's 1984, and he introduces a translator and a technician to Bob Marley ("Get up, stand up; Stand up for your rights!"). He has a beguilingly playful quality as an author, too. At the International Friendship Exhibition, he's shown thousands of foreign gifts to North Korea's founder, the late Kim Il Sung, all housed underground to withstand nuclear attack. Delisle sketches a few scenes that highlight the absurdity of a friendship exhibition in an atomic bunker, but stops short of committing all the details...
...failed coup against Chavez in 2002 (a charge the White House denies). Fuel was added last summer when conservative televangelist Pat Robertson-a high-profile supporter of President Bush - publicly called for Chavez's assassination. (Robertson has since apologized.) Chavez is a democratically elected president, but his close friendship with Cuba's Fidel Castro, his own flirtations with autocratic government and his recently declared interest in acquiring nuclear technology have Washington bristling. As a result, the fiery Chavez and his growing number of supporters around the region remain vocally convinced that Bush is out to kill...
...said, Hillary Clinton recognized the woman as one of her husband's mistresses and furiously ordered the trooper to take her away. Reached last week by TIME, the woman insisted that the story was ''totally false . . . I have never had a relationship with Bill Clinton outside of a friendship and a professional relationship.'' Meanwhile, the woman who allegedly had the 94-minute, late-night conversation with Clinton came forward anonymously last week to tell the New York Daily News that ''there was no sex involved'' in their relationship. Clinton had been calling, she insisted, to ''help her through a personal...
Rubin is currently translating Murakami’s latest novel, “After Dark.” Their professional relationship has turned into a friendship over the course of fifteen years. While living in the same Cambridge neighborhood, Rubin often consulted Murakami over his translation of “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.” In a way, their relationship is like the one that could have blossomed between Carver and Murakami, had he lived...