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...reports that an avalanche of 9/11-related books are being published to coincide with the one-year anniversary. "Whether publishers are motivated by plucky optimism or cannibal instincts, they are pushing an astonishing number of September 11-related books into the market," says PW. Ingram, the leading book distributor, estimates that there are 150 titles, "clearly a high-water mark for book tie-in to a single news event," says PW. There are also numerous children's titles, says PW, including "Understanding September 11" (Viking) by TIME reporter Mitch Frank...
This week marks the one-year anniversary of the Democrats' taking over the Senate after Daschle enticed Vermont Senator James Jeffords to bolt from the Republican Party. For Daschle, the year has been an emotional roller coaster, with an anthrax-laced letter shutting down his Senate office for almost six months and conservative groups, egged on by Lott and the White House, blanketing his home state of South Dakota with TV and newspaper ads demonizing him for blocking Bush's agenda...
...nation where politics often resembles Russian roulette--a mayor is murdered every three weeks or so in Colombia--Uribe became an especially vulnerable target for assassination when he declared himself the candidate who, if elected, would whip Colombia's vicious and seemingly invincible guerrilla armies. By the time the one-year campaign was over, the largest rebel group, the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces, or FARC, had tried to kill Uribe at least three times, most recently by bombing his motorcade. Though the candidate emerged unscathed, the attempts on his life were a reminder that Colombia, locked more fiercely than ever...
Stone took a one-year position working as a lawyer in Worcester, which was racially polarized at the time—to an extent, he recalls, that “it was hard to function...
After the change on Aug. 1, Brustein plans to take a one-year leave, during which time he will write a history of the ART, in part through a fellowship at Columbia University...