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...reading the newspapers. Anthony Powell was a good friend - in fact, during the 1950s he helped the young and ambitious Naipaul secure work as a book reviewer for the British magazine the New Statesman, and displayed an avuncular warmth that Naipaul warmly recalls. But Naipaul now conducts a shameful hatchet job on his late benefactor's reputation, depicting him as the plodding ham of English drawing-room novelists and wondering if their friendship lasted "because I had not examined his work." Sam Selvon he boasts of having insulted face-to-face during a BBC radio interview, by referring...
...time in history that the leaders of the Koreas will have met. But it already seems like a pattern. Back in 2000, with much fanfare, Kim Jong Il met his South Korean counterpart in a historic North South summit, where the two sides worked to try to bury a hatchet that's now more than 50 years old. But then tensions with the U.S. over the nuclear issue blunted any forward momentum and a scandal later revealed the summit to have been very much a sham. Will this meeting, scheduled for Aug. 28-30 in Pyongyang, be any different...
...docu-comedies have premiered at Cannes, and in 2004 his Fahrenheit 9/11 copped the Palme d'Or on its way to a $222 million worldwide gross-unprecedented for a nonfiction film. Now, having sermonized on the problem of American gun violence and the occupation of Iraq, Moore takes his hatchet to the ailing U.S. health-care system in Sicko...
...FINAL TRUCE? On March 9, East and West Coast icons Diddy and Snoop officially buried the hatchet by touring together. Days later, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five were inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame--the first hip-hop artists to achieve such recognition. Some feuds may go on, but rap's Wild West era may be over...
Think, too, about why we sometimes remind ourselves that "life is short." It is an impetus to extend a gesture of affection to a loved one, to bury the hatchet in a pointless dispute, to use time productively rather than squander it. I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift...