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Barry Lopez is best known for two wonderfully instructive non-fiction books that explore the troubled boundaries between civilization and nature, Of Wolves and Men and Arctic Dreams. Their substance is scholarly and reflective (he won the 1986 National Book Award for Dreams), but it is their tone -- highly colored...
Despite his astonishing displays of excess, there seems to be a kind of brutal calculus behind the madness. "If I behave like the good-natured intellectual I really am," Zhirinovsky told TIME editors last week, "I won't get votes. It's war out there, and I'm out to...
Famine, flood and that George Harrison album. for years, this was all most Americans knew of Bangladesh -- and Mukit Hossain has devoted his life to erasing that image. "We are a sophisticated, intelligent, highly evolved culture," proclaims Hossain, former head of the Federation of Bangladesh Associations of North America. But...
The passengers are getting rowdy: "When are we stopping for doughnuts?" "I'll buy you lunch! I'll buy you a ham-and-cheese sandwich." The officers ignore the gibes. "We get one doughnut comment every day," says a good-natured Krajeski. "And we get offered bribes. One kid offered...
Though Mandela may be a natural mass leader, he does not exhibit all the attributes associated with such charismatic figures. Yes, Mandela may plunge into ecstatic crowds at rallies, pump hands, give the clenched-fist A.N.C. salute and dance a few steps of the toyi-toyi. But when he begins...