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Leonardo da Vinci stood on one end of the stage, Mickey Mantle on the other. The Mick seemed a little out of place in the company of Da Vinci, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Laura Ingalls Wilder and Mahatma Gandhi, but this was my son's third-grade class biography project, titled Who Am I?, and an understanding teacher had allowed him to portray his favorite baseball player, a preference passed down like DNA from both his mother and his father. "I was born in Spavinaw, Oklahoma, in 1931," said this child born in New York City...
...Mahatma Joe," the first novella in the collection, is the story of an evangelist trying to do one last good work, sending food to people in Africa. He plants a garden, helped first by his wife, and after her death, by a drifter, Leena...
...news conference, Fieger compared his client's crusade with those of civil rights heroes Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks and India's Mahatma Gandhi. Kevorkian "does not wish to die," Fieger says, but he will continue his fast "unless he is released or the law is struck down." The legislation was overturned once in a county court earlier this year. But the state challenged the decision, and the Michigan Court of Appeals agreed to review it, meanwhile reinstating the law until a ruling comes, probably early next year. The waiting period will sternly test Kevorkian's resolve...
Modern artists aren't so patient. The past decade or so has witnessed operas on such subjects as Mahatma Gandhi (Philip Glass's Satyagraha) and Richard Nixon (John Adams' Nixon in China). The latest example is Malcolm Little, known best as the black-power firebrand Malcolm X, who was gunned down in New York City 27 years ago. Spike Lee's already controversial film Malcolm X is due to open next month, but before there was Lee there was composer Anthony Davis and his powerful, chilling opera X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X, first produced in Philadelphia...
...writing, as in his life, Bill had little use for ostentatious frills. His friend Tom Sancton, a senior editor, recalls that Bill liked to quote Mahatma Gandhi's admonition: "Simplify your needs." Long after the rest of us switched to electric typewriters, and later computers, he continued pounding out copy on his beloved Royal manual. A blindingly fast typist, he would write one perfect paragraph per page and then rearrange the order of the pages until he got the story structure right. One of his few concessions to modern technology was his habit of wearing airport-style antinoise earphones when...