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...especially Queen Elizabeth II, one of the great figures of the 20th century. George Agathokleous Athens Legacy of a Legend At a school function, i learned of the death of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks from an eighth-grade student [Nov. 7]. I was struck by the complexity of God's will in our lives. Could Parks have dreamed, as she rode the bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955 and refused to give up her seat to a white passenger, that 50 years later a white boy in Texas would speak her name reverently and express regret at her passing...
...examining personal relationships, this time she takes on two of the more pressing moral issues of the age: how to do good in the world and whether it matters. Her previous novels - The Joy Luck Club (she also co-wrote director Wayne Wang's 1993 movie version), The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses and The Bonesetter's Daughter - were all best sellers focusing on the bond between mothers and daughters, the latter often Chinese-American like Tan. Uncharacteristically, Saving Fish is mostly about politics, and it's set mostly in Burma, not China or Tan's native...
...Valli wasn't just kidding with his falsetto. It was not pure, not angelic, like the sweet-child voices of Brian and Carl Wilson on such Beach Boys tracks as "In My Room" and "God Only Knows." Valli's had a raspiness that gave his romantic pleas gravel, gravity, balls. This was no castrato, but a grown, yearning heterosexual male whose impossibly high voice set him apart, in tone and content, from the baritone norm, and made him perfect for all the outsider characters he would articulate in the Seasons' hits...
...front row of a grubby Beijing church on Sunday, his tour took on a deeper and more forceful significance. China has a long and unsavory history of restricting the religious rights of its citizens. In the church guest book, Bush took up most of a page to scrawl, "May God bless the Christians of China...
...people and a dog in a Blazer, and 7 people in a Grand Am. It was a horrible experience to have to leave everything and not even be able to have clothes to put on our bodies, but we made it through it all by the grace of God. Mary Green Canal Winchester, Ohio...