Word: mideastern
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...MIDEASTERN...
...this Mr. Potter isn't Harry's dad. Mr. Potter, a native Antiguan of African descent, works on the Caribbean island of Antigua as a chauffeur for a Mideastern immigrant. He is the focus of Jamaica Kincaid's new novel, "Mr. Potter," (Farrar, Straus; May). PW is swept away, giving the book a starred review. "Another unsentimental, unsparing meditation on family and the larger forces that shape an individual's world...As in her previous books, Kincaid has exquisite control over her narrator's deep-seated rage, which drives the story but never overpowers it, and is tempered...
...Mideastern Conference, led by Howard (18-9), No. 112 in RPI. Tourney...
...high-stakes game of musical chairs, sending all the region's players scurrying to reposition themselves. While it's too early to predict winners, the strategies pursued by the different players from here on may determine the future of the Mideast for decades to come. And in true Mideastern fashion, the move that represents a dramatic step towards peace also carries new dangers...
...political discourse. Scholars such as Dr. Peter Novick, for example, have provoked serious debate by suggesting, in a detailed history of the place of the Holocaust in American public life, that memory of the Holocaust has been tailored to suit such agendas as support for Israel against its Mideastern foes. "There's been a movement over the past decade to begin looking very seriously at the ways in which the Holocaust has been 'marketed' and used in support of contemporary political goals," says TIME religion correspondent David Van Biema. "As difficult as that notion may be for some people...