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...JACOB'S LADDER...
...Rhodes scholar who became a novelist once heralded as the "black Faulkner." But in 1976 the light began to darken. Wideman's younger brother Robert was convicted as an accomplice to a murder and subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment. Ten years later, the writer's 16- year-old son Jacob stabbed a camping companion to death and, like his uncle, was given a life term...
...contains the only known account from the ancient Middle East of the creation of woman -- six times as long as the story of Adam's advent from a "mud pie." Furthermore, the women of the Pentateuch (Eve, Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, Tamar, Zipporah) are strong; none of the men (Abraham, Jacob, Moses) are particularly good looking. Circumstantial evidence, but in an era of enhanced interest in feminist creativity, it is not very hypothetical to assume that Bloom's work will draw a wide and interested audience...
...Hartman doubled as a Montreal rabbi and a McGill University philosophy instructor. He didn't publish until he was 41 (he is now 58). "All that time I was just thinking," says Hartman -- which was just as well. His books and monographs are models of clarity. He writes "like Jacob wrestling with the angel," says the philosopher Michael Walzer. "He holds that experience no less than tradition can be a valid source of theological inspiration and that one need not be religious to be ethical...
...intended to prod the Federal Government into spending more money on researching pediatric AIDS. The witness, wife of TV star Paul Michael Glaser (Starsky and Hutch), had contracted the HIV virus from a blood transfusion nine years ago and passed it along to her infant daughter Ariel and son Jacob. Since Ariel's death in 1988, the Glasers have devoted much of their energies to publicizing the plight of AIDS-infected children...