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...literature. The book is not only a pioneering autobiography but the forerunner of modern psychology and existentialism. It contains piercing self- examination of the soul ("You have made us for Yourself, and our hearts are restless until they find peace in You") and of the mind ("I cannot totally grasp all that I am"). Indeed, Massachusetts Theologian Brian Daley credits him with being the "discoverer of the person...
Even then, officials did not grasp the enormity of the problem. They apparently assumed that the fallout from Nios would be no more severe than a similar incident two years ago (see box). Moreover, authorities were distracted by the impending arrival of Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, the first such visit by an Israeli head of government to a black African state in 20 years. Although Peres and Cameroon President Paul Biya signed an agreement renewing diplomatic relations, their meeting was quickly upstaged by the drama evolving on the northwestern border...
...photographers in the Portland show, Yan Morvan and Alfred Yaghobzadeh, have worked in Lebanon, and from some of their pictures one can grasp the moral implications of that tone. Their best images are their least polished: Morvan's scene of the aftermath of a car bomb, Yaghobzadeh's shot of two men bearing the victim of heavy shelling. For photographers working in the rubble of failed diplomacy, the most decent impulse is to use the camera as a branding iron -- the right pictures are blunt, scorching and indelible. That they can also look raw and haphazard is merely proof that...
After the first four and one-half billion years, Professor of Geology Stephen J. Gould took over, saying, "Geological time is so immense we can only grasp it in metaphor...
...what to whom and why is teasingly left unresolved. Nonetheless, the reader is almost certain to become enmeshed in the story of domineering, possessive Vera Hillyard, her malicious older son, her seemingly illegitimate younger son, and the devoted sister who secretly seeks to escape Vera's grasp and instead provokes a murder...