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...must be added that few of those outraged by The Satanic Verses have ever seen it, much less opened it. Their fury, and the timorousness of government officials fearing violent uproars, has been prompted by one accusation: that the novel contains a blasphemous portrait of the Prophet Muhammad and thus amounts to a terrible insult to Islam. The plain, simple truth is that the novel does nothing of the sort, but only those who consent to read the thing will discover this for themselves...
...said the presidency is an easy job--especially not Jimmy Carter, Reagan's predecessor and the prophet of malaise. After Carter, who immersed himself so thoroughly in government minutiae that he was even monitoring the White House tennis court schedule, anyone could have made the presidency look simple. Reagan made it look too simple. Nine to five, with an hour for lunch. Three weeks off for major holidays...
...Trump recalls. "I'd dated a lot of different women by then, but I'd never gotten seriously involved with any of them. Ivana wasn't someone you dated casually. Ten months later, in April 1977, we were married." They were married, incidentally, by Norman Vincent Peale, the prophet of Positive Thinking, and then Trump put his bride right to work supervising the interior decor for all his projects. (There are also three children, Donald Jr., 11, Ivanka, 7, and Eric...
...least four hundred years from now/ Your tale will still be told, I vow." The prophet is Queen Elizabeth I, and she is celebrating Sir Francis Drake, His Daring Deeds (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $12.95). So is Roy Gerrard, who imaginatively charts the rise of Britain's supersailor from cabin boy to conqueror of the Spanish Armada. Although the author-illustrator employs rhymed couplets and a suite of exuberant watercolors, he is textbook-true to history, pageantry, royalty and, most important, the man who "took his leave, with sails unfurled,/ to circumnavigate the world...
...District Prophet (D.P.) Mani Sadr: Could you tell the Court, Mr. Haj, how it was you came to make bargains with those scheming imperialists from that evil place in the West...