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Those who know Bush paint a complex portrait of her. She idolized pacifists like King but studied martial arts and had once practiced her shot at the firing range with her father. She made fast friends with the outcasts at school yet wanted nothing more than to be accepted by Marchese, the cheerleading captain who ran with the cool crowd. "She has a kind heart," says her mother Catherine. "In school she made friends with a girl in a wheelchair and helped her out. She would always put herself between those who were being picked on" and their tormentors...
...extended family experience life more fully because they believe so deeply. Devoted readers of the Daily Worker, Stalinists to the end ("the pact with Hitler was a tactic, darling"), they sometimes look ridiculous but steadily buoy Gallagher with a bracing sense of connectedness. As a girl, she thought a portrait of Lenin hanging on the wall was a picture of her grandfather. Her summers at "worker's camp," where the oppressed were celebrated, provide wonderful memories, although political purity was strictly enforced: an extra slice of watermelon to a black kid could provoke a rebuke...
Scott MacLeod's article was marred by the omission of key information about Arafat. MacLeod gave scant attention to Arafat's career as a terrorist over a period that has spanned decades and continues to this day. Absent in this portrait was a long list of atrocities committed by Fatah and P.L.O. member groups under Arafat's guidance. MacLeod virtually ignored Arafat's autocratic regime and the lack of democracy in the Palestinian areas. HENRY FRANK Camp Hill...
...heard from the victims. There's a better way, she thought. And there was. Today Boylan, 47, is acclaimed for developing a technique so accurate that an FBI agent who has worked with her likens the results to "something drawn from a photograph." Among her creations: the iconic portrait of the Unabomber--a dead ringer for a young Ted Kaczynski, as well as the near mirror-image drawing of Polly Klaas' killer, Richard Allen Davis. Her secret? A diligent reading--and application--of memory science...
...arrived in 1996, at age 27, in a small city called Fuling on the banks of the Yangtze River to teach English for two years. River Town (HarperCollins; 402 pages; $26) chronicles his conversations there with farmers, teachers, porters, cooks and prostitutes and, in the process, provides a wonderful portrait of contemporary China, in all its unsettling contradictions...