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Solomon Jones, the volunteer chauffeur, called up to bring coats for a chilly night. There was no reply. Time on the balcony had turned lethal, which left hanging the last words fixed on a gospel song of refuge. King stood still for once, and his sojourn on earth went blank...
This was already a year that redefined generosity. Americans gave more money to tsunami relief, more than $1.6 billion, than to any overseas mission ever before. The Hurricane Season from Hell brought another outpouring of money and time and water bottles and socks and coats and offers of refuge, some...
ASSASSINATED. GEBRAN TUENI, 48, outspoken Lebanese journalist and legislator known for his relentless criticism of Syria's influence in Lebanon, where Syrian troops had been stationed for three decades until they were pressured to withdraw this year; in a car bomb attack, less than 24 hours after his return from...
As the orthodoxy goes, AAAS has never been the same since the departure of its star, Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West to the bucolic refuge of Princeton. With him went a peerless academic mind, an architect of intricate and novel theories on the politics and sociology of race that...
...process. While most Palestinian towns remain as ghostly quiet as they were during the curfews of the intifadeh, Ramallah has a lively nightlife, new theaters, a cinema and a flourishing music scene. "When people come to Ramallah, they taste culture," says Munther Jawabreh, 29, an artist from a refugee camp near Hebron. "Instead of the Israeli occupation, they can think about beauty." In Ramallah, there's plenty to think about these days. Since Palestinian leaders announced a halt to the intifadeh in February and Israel's tanks pulled back, Ramallah has seen a burst of creativity. In July...