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DIED. ARTHUR ROBINSON, 89, cartographer whose work dramatically improved the way the world looks on maps; in Madison, Wis. Mapmakers had long struggled with the problem of representing the round Earth on a flat map. The once widely accepted version by the Flemish Gerardus Mercator, for example, distorted Greenland to appear four times its actual size. In 1963, by focusing on aesthetics--and only later incorporating a mathematical formula--he devised a projection that became the basis for world maps by Rand McNally and many federal agencies...
Bennett’s appointment has not escaped controversy. According to a Post story, some employees have taken issue with the selection of a white male over an African American, Eugene Robinson, and a woman, Liz Spayd, assistant managing editors for Style and national news, respectively...
Unlike his forebears, Ames has barely left the town of Gilead, feeling that to do so would be to abandon the hope that has gone into its creation as a bulwark against slavery. "There must have been a hundred little towns like it," writes Robinson, "set up in the heat of an old urgency that is all forgotten now, and their littleness and their shabbiness, which was the measure of the courage and passion that went into the making of them, now just look awkward and provincial and ridiculous...
Gilead is an unshowy but potently contemplative book. The apparently exemplary Ames is plagued by the feeling that he has failed to live up to his calling. Robinson, who is a devout Congregationalist, describes the struggle with compassion and knowingness, reflecting what she says is a tendency to become deeply absorbed in the lives of her characters. In considering when she will write her third novel, she says, "I hope it's not another 23 years." But even if it is, she's not explaining herself to anyone. --By Michele Orecklin
...person and often wonder why more people are not also that way. Has molecular biologist Dean Hamer with his discovery of a God gene, one that inclines a person toward spiritual beliefs, answered that question for me? Is it really in the genes? That makes sense to me. MARGOT ROBINSON Greensboro...