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...quiet and unassuming Kagame, a brilliant battlefield tactician whose family fled to Uganda during anti-Tutsi pogroms 40 years ago, is now president of Rwanda. On Feb. 5, he will visit Harvard's Institute of Politics and likely share with audiences his vision of a Rwanda without ethnicity...
...This quiet, quotidian scene occupies roughly the first one-fifth of Don DeLillo's The Body Artist (Scribner; 128 pages; $22) and is followed abruptly by an obituary: Rey Robles, 64, a Spanish-born film director prominent for a time in the late 1970s, has shot and killed himself in the Manhattan apartment of his first wife. After a brief account of Robles' life and career and a reference to his later problems with alcoholism and depression, the article concludes, "He is survived by his third wife, Lauren Hartke, the body artist...
HENRY CISNEROS Former Housing Secretary lied to the FBI about how much money he paid his mistress to keep their relationship quiet--a crime of private passion with which Clinton might have identified...
...claim, is old rival Jamaludin Haqqani, a former mujahedin in Soviet times and later a Taliban minister, who squeezed the royalists out of Khost in the eighties. The brothers are in essence offering Kabul and the U.S. a deal: give us money and power, and we will keep Khost quiet. It is not clear whether the modernizing government in Kabul will want to accept this. It is even less sure if it will have any choice...
...sleep. Which is often a good thing, and if the nice folks at CBS would like to rerun the show at 11:30 p.m. ET (right after the 11 o'clock "Simpsons," thank you very much) I would be most grateful. It was all quite beautiful and quiet, all palm trees and long shots of ocean and people exchanging meaningful glances that meant nothing to me, and I at first thought that Terrence Malick had decided to try his hand at reality...