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...HARCOURT BRACE would seem to have a major p.r. headache on its hands. The co-author of one of its lead fall titles, Africans in America: America's Journey through Slavery, is PATRICIA SMITH, the Boston Globe columnist who was asked to resign in June after she was found to have fabricated four columns. Harcourt executive editor Jane Isay says the firm still plans to publish the book, which was co-authored with novelist Charles Johnson and is the companion to a PBS series. "She is a wonderful writer. Her prose is riveting," says Isay, who nonetheless concedes that Harcourt...
...sojourn in Spain is recounted with panache and subtlety in Arturo Perez-Reverte's The Seville Communion (Harcourt Brace; 375 pages; $24), one of those infrequent whodunits that transcend the genre. The investigating priest is soon dipping into an olla podrida involving cupidity, lost love and sudden deaths at the church that may or may not have been accidents. Among those defending the church is the imperious noblewoman Macarena Bruner, whose Carmen-like beauty disturbs the celibate priest. She's the estranged wife of a banker who faces financial ruin if a sneaky real estate deal that would raze...
President Clinton may be a careless man, but he does not deserve all this torture and humiliation, especially from a hypocritical and sinful society. IFEANYI T. OGBONNA Port Harcourt, Nigeria...
...racism (The Defiant Ones), nuclear war (On the Beach), Nazism (Judgment at Nuremberg) and interracial marriage (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner) evoke a dutiful do-gooderism: school lessons, church sermons, a stern talk from Dad. In It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World: A Life in Hollywood (Harcourt Brace; 251 pages; $25), Kramer, 83, gets to make a case for the defense...
This is no simple irony. Harvard's governing body is called "the Corporation," and it is composed of some of the leading lawyers and business executives in the nation including Daniel, who is the director of McKinsey & Company, and Richard A. Smith '46 who is chair of Harcourt General. Like any board of directors, the Corporation handles major decisions concerning revenue and investments...