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Would the real Kazuo Ishiguro please stand up? The 50-year-old novelist is a tough man to classify. Born in Nagasaki, bred in Surrey (where he lived from the age of 5), he looks Japanese, but speaks with the accent of public-school England. Three of his six novels are set in the Far East, the other three explore the quintessence of Englishness. After the stately, hugely successful The Remains of the Day, which spawned the 1993 movie, Ishiguro went wild; his next two novels - The Unconsoled and When We Were Orphans - subjected their characters to chaos, violence...
Early last summer, Kerry told me--off the record--that his sister Diana had been laid off from her job as a Boston public-school teacher because of budget cuts. Kerry had recently staged a press conference with the teacher of the year in South Carolina, who had also been laid off, and I asked him whether he planned to hold a similar event with Diana. "Oh, no," he said. "I wouldn't want to embarrass...
Ziegler finds himself in “a dormitory, by and large, of public-school graduates, who feel the strain of Harvard most in their freshman year,” Updike wrote. “The private-school boys, launched by little Harvards like Andover and Groton, tend to glide through this year and to run aground later on strange reefs, foundering in alcohol, or sinking into a dandified apathy. But the institution demands of each man, before it releases him, a wrenching sacrifice of ballast...
...Dukakis' opposition to the death penalty and his veto of a bill requiring public-school teachers to recite the Pledge of Allegiance spurred Republicans to claim he was out of touch with the American mainstream. The Bush-Cheney team will echo the assault, noting that Kerry also opposes the death penalty, although he makes an exception for terrorists. You can see the ad now: Does Kerry really believe, the narrator might say, that it's O.K. to execute an al-Qaeda operative who blows up a bus but not a gangster who shoots up a restaurant? Republicans will also press...
DIED. LOUISE DAY HICKS, 87, antibusing crusader; in Boston. As a city council member and public-school official, she led the fight against busing to desegregate the schools, saying it went against the interests of residents in her nearly all-white South Boston neighborhood...