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Seth Morgan began writing this first novel during a prison term for armed robbery. The cuff marks show, and not just in detail that seems accurate. The novel is funny and fast moving, but its air stinks slightly of decay. As it should. A couple of Nelson Algren's low-life adventures come to mind, such as A Walk on the Wild Side and The Man with the Golden Arm. Algren was a better writer and a more lyrical artist, but Morgan is better acquainted with dead souls...
...know their coach thinks they didn't play well, but I thought we had a lot to do with that," Dartmouth Coach Tim Nelson said. "We're a better team than people give us credit...
...historic photo op: Nelson Mandela, head of the African National Congress delegation, sitting down to negotiate with South African President F.W. de Klerk. As three days of talks got under way last week, De Klerk called the government's first formal meeting with the A.N.C. since its founding in 1912 "a milestone...
...think that, more than anyone in this country, it is I who have brought matters to where they are today." The words of President F.W. de Klerk? Or black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela? No, the speaker at last week's press conference was Mangosuthu Buthelezi, 61, the self-confident president of Inkatha, chief minister of KwaZulu and prince of the Zulus...
Despite the waves of liberalization that have swept across the world in the past year, thousands of political prisoners still sit in cells from Singapore to Syria. Some have been there for more than 27 years, the time served by South Africa's Nelson Mandela, the world's most famous detainee until his release in February. Among the longest-serving political prisoners...