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What Glenn is highlighting these days is his ties to powerful Republicans, which he argues will give him more swat in Congress than either of his opponents. But that distinction could cost him in a district that is 39% black and deeply suspicious of the G.O.P. Says civil rights hero and Georgia Congressman John Lewis: "The question will be, Are you what we used to call a 'race man'?" Still, Lewis sees something else in the Glenn race: an emerging conservatism among young blacks--or at least a reluctance to sign up blindly with the Democratic Party. "As younger black...
...said `This gives me a chance to be a hero,' but I was joking, I didn't really think it would happen. It just ended up that...
...Raitcliffe, as Moody makes very clear in the first short chapter of the novel, is a hero, "and if he's a hero, then heroes are five-and-dime, and the world is as crowded with them as it is with stray pets, worn tires, and missing keys." He is a saint maybe, like one of the exceedingly normal yet extraordinarily courageous and strong characters who populate the works of Anne Tyler; a modern day tragic hero whose Achilles' heel and fatal flaw is a penchant for liquor. Lou Sloane's abrupt and cruel parting from Billie rouses Hex from...
...between the former President and the sitting President. As Brinkley writes, "Carter was prepared to do just about anything to prevent a Middle East war, even if it meant working against his own government." Carter, close friend of Yasser Arafat (and, at one point, his virtual speechwriter) and hero in the Arab world, wrote letters to the heads of state of the members of the U.N. Security Council, and later to the Arab heads of state, pleading with them to abandon President Bush's painstakingly assembled coalition against Saddam Hussein. Later on, Carter admitted his tactics were "not appropriate...
...skills have waned; his new novel is in many respects his best since Garp. But over the past two decades, serious fiction has been elbowed ever further toward the fringes of popular culture. The adulation that once greeted Garp now goes to sitcoms and celebrities, a development that the hero-author in the novel foresaw and deplored...