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...letters." He spent much of his time frequenting Harlem's famous cabarets and hosting legendary parties where struggling black artists could establish contacts with New York's influential whites. Van Vechten is credited with directly assisting in the publication of many works by black authors, including Nella Larsen's Quicksand and Passing, the reissuing of James Weldon Johnson's Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and many of Hughes's works (he indeed is solely responsible for launching Hughes's major publishing career). As the letters between him and Hughes attest, Van Vechten seemed genuinely enamored with the black culture...
...pleased to be one of the priorities. It's just great to be in that list of six. As the campaign was winding down, there were so many priorities with in FAS and the fact that the library was designated a priority was extremely important," says Nancy M. Cline, Larsen librarian of Harvard College...
...Norwegian U.N. envoy Terje Roed-Larsen, who played a leading behind-the-scenes role in brokering the Oslo agreement, urged Israel on Tuesday to reopen its borders to the more than one fifth of the Palestinian work force who've been unable to reach their jobs in the Jewish state - and warned that the precipitous decline of the Palestinian economy was planting the seeds of a regional war. The Israeli blockade has quadrupled Palestinian unemployment, and the two months of the uprising have seen income losses to Palestinians totaling more than $500 million dollars. Indeed, the World Bank...
Horrified by the rancor in Florida, the still idealistic freshmen have actually behaved like adults since the election. At last week's welcome dinner for new House members, Democrat Larsen sought out fellow dentist and Republican Charlie Norwood, a Georgian with a perfect rating from the Christian Coalition. They had a good talk about the patients' bill of rights over duck and pasta. Earlier in the week Larsen had returned to his hotel room one night to find a fruit basket. In years past it might have been from his party's chairman. This one was sent by Republican Representative...
...ability to communicate with both liberals and moderates and then quell their spats. But the balancing act may get tougher: of the 10 seats that Democrats took from Republicans, most will be held by conservatives like Mike Ross of Arkansas and right-of-center moderates like Rick Larsen of Washington State. What's more, with a large number of aging Democratic Congressmen nearing retirement, Gephardt will have to take the lead in recruiting new candidates to replace them. In other words, a guy who has so far been thwarted from two ambitions--the presidency and the speakership--will return...