Word: nationals
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...Satanic Verses, has precipitated what some Islamic experts regard as the most incendiary literary fight in the 14 centuries of Islamic history. Last week the controversy spread from the dusty streets of Pakistan to the offices of European publishers and to the shopping malls of America, where the nation's largest booksellers ordered all copies of The Satanic Verses removed from the shelves. Suddenly the name Salman Rushdie was on the lips of millions, many reviling him but others expressing sympathy and genuinely wondering how a novel could elicit such deadly passion. The dispute reminded Westerners once again...
MANDY PATINKIN: MANDY PATINKIN (CBS). The Broadway (Sunday in the Park with George) and movie (Alien Nation) actor lets fly with a fearlessly melodramatic song cycle chosen from sources as various as Stephen Sondheim and Al Jolson. Some are a bit florid, but the best tunes (like Anyone Can Whistle) have a delicacy that lingers...
Among the millions of photographs taken every day, a select few will rank as great photojournalism. An even tinier category will merit appreciation as fine art. Those are the images that intrigue associate editor Richard Lacayo, who serves as TIME's photography critic besides writing in the magazine's Nation section. Years before Lacayo decided to pursue an English major at Cornell, he became fascinated with photography when he picked up a secondhand volume of Henri Cartier-Bresson's work at a neighborhood bookshop on New York's Long Island. "I was about 14 years old," says Lacayo...
...Kamp was making a sobering point: the nation's body count keeps mounting as reckless gunplay continues at an alarming rate. In Bethesda, Md., last week, an emotionally disturbed office worker shot and killed three people and then committed suicide by turning his weapon on himself. An exchange of hard looks in a Woodbridge, Va., high school corridor ended when a visiting teenager shot a student in the groin. A man who was asked to leave a sweet-16 party took his revenge by spraying a New York City subway platform with a 9-mm automatic handgun, wounding...
...curriculum be recast to make students analyze what they know rather than just repeat facts and rules. Without such changes, it says, U.S. graduates may soon be unable to compete with those from other countries for the world economy's increasingly complex jobs. "Recent improvements represent a significant national accomplishment," says Gregory Anrig, president of the Educational Testing Service, which administered the study for N.A.E.P. "But progress falls short of what the times require. Much more progress is needed for the economic development of our nation and the intellectual well-being of the next generation...