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...nothing could be proved until Chambers produced the "pumpkin papers," microfilms of State Department documents that he said Hiss had given him for transmission to Moscow. Hiss was convicted of perjury in January 1950, served 44 months in prison and has spent the rest of his long life denying guilt...
After France, Belgium, Italy and the U.S. flew in military rescue units, most of the 2,850 terrified foreign diplomats, aid workers and missionaries were evacuated. Some wept with guilt over the fate of Rwandan friends left behind. Theresa Scimeni, an American teacher at the International School in Kigali, recalled the horror before she and her husband and two young daughters were rescued. "We heard each of the houses near us attacked in turn. There would be firing, screams, then silence," she said, safe in Nairobi. "Then a few minutes later the men would move to the next house...
...Where Plath is concerned, Hughes plays two roles that are hopelessly in conflict: he is both Plath's faithless husband and also her literary executor, so whenever a writer is denied access to Plath's papers, he or she can accuse Hughes of trying to cover up his own guilt. He grants no interviews and has written no memoir. Instead of Hughes, Plath's biographers have had to deal with Olwyn, Hughes' cranky older sister, who has served as a combative intermediary for her absent brother. Malcolm gets no closer to the poet than the other Plathian detectives who have...
SINCE HIS ARRIVAL ON THE POST-punk scene 17 years ago, Elvis Costello has shown himself to be one of the most prolific and protean songwriters of his generation. Known for lean, melodious three-minute songs with scathing lyrics about sexual guilt and revenge, he reigned for more than a decade as the acerbic headliner of progressive pop. Then came the '90s. Once a skinny faux nerd, Costello put on weight and grew a beard. His last pop album, 1991's sentimental Mighty like a Rose, was a disappointment. After last year's The Juliet Letters, a sedate song cycle...
Most of us are not unaware of the plight of the homeless. We ignore them for the most part, our disregard occasionally punctured by stabs of guilt. They fade easily into the landscape, impotent and faceless...