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...Whether in Iraq or Turkey, Syria or Iran, the Kurds are destined to remain an orphan nation...
...book needn't have a critical pedigree; it needn't even have been conceived as a novel. Four years ago, writer Michael Blake had sired a bunch of orphan scripts and one Hollywood credit: Stacy's Knights (1981), starring an unknown Kevin Costner. One day Blake pitched the star this idea: cavalryman goes to new fort, finds no one there. Wouldn't that make a good screenplay? "Don't write a screenplay," Costner said, pointing to a pile of scripts on his living-room floor. "It'll just end up in that stack. Write a book instead." A book called...
Critics of the Pentagon policy charge that neither military parents nor their children need suffer so much grief. Last month Republican Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and Democratic Representative Barbara Boxer of California introduced similar gulf-orphan legislation. Their bills would allow single parents, or one parent in the case of a military couple with minor children, to decline a war-zone assignment. Military officials would choose which parent to exempt in the case of a couple...
Ernest, I came to understand, was a sort of brilliant grown-up orphan: he had an air that was both distinguished and tattered. Something in his mind had broken years before. He survived on technique. Ernest taught me how to forage for an all-American diet: wait politely behind a fast-food place at closing time and accept the unsold hamburgers and fries. A third problem, keeping clean, was difficult but manageable: a cold-water spigot in the morning...
...tycoon. A Life of Picasso by John Richardson -- Volume I, 1881 to 1906, by the artist's scholarly friend. Blown Away by A.E. Hotchner -- Drugs, death and the Rolling Stones. A Hole in the World by Richard Rhodes -- A distinguished writer's autobiography about his early life as an orphan...