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A child prodigy at 14, a full professional by his early 20s and dead at 42, Van Dyck had one of those careers that is conventionally dubbed meteoric -- except that it did not burn out. His name has lasted three centuries. Which is not to say that he has altogether...
A Hole in the World by Richard Rhodes. Child abuse was not discovered by if- it-bleeds-it-leads TV-news editors. Suffering innocents can also be found in literature, extending from Medea to Oliver Twist. Set in the Midwest during the '30s and '40s, this memoir of how Rhodes...
Joy should have reigned last week among members of the African National Congress as the long-outlawed group held its first conference inside South Africa in 30 years. Instead, rancor erupted as the A.N.C.'s veteran leadership clashed with the younger, hard-line rank and file. President Oliver Tambo, back...
EDITORIAL OPERATIONS DIRECTOR: Oliver Knowlton
Thirty years ago, Oliver Tambo slipped out of South Africa to establish an overseas network of the African National Congress just before the underground movement was crushed at home. Tambo, president of the A.N.C. since 1967, returned last week, flying into Johannesburg's Jan Smuts Airport to delirious shouts of...