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...late Roger Tory Peterson invented this sort of book with his pioneering A Field Guide to the Birds (1934), and more than 8 million copies of Peterson's guide and its diverse updatings and amplifications have been sold. Numerous competing volumes have crowded into this commercial niche. Now the birding world is aflutter over the near simultaneous arrival of two more, highly publicized guides: Kenn Kaufman's Birds of North America (Houghton Mifflin; 384 pages; $20) and David Allen Sibley's The Sibley Guide to Birds (Knopf; 544 pages...
...appalled by the insensitivity Roger Rosenblatt showed in his commentary about the human need to write based on the revelation of the Russian submariner's last message to his wife [ESSAY, Nov. 6]. The situation aboard the Kursk should not be trivialized by relating it to existential musings on the subject of why people write. Lieut. Captain Dimitri Kolesnikov wrote to tell a truth we all suspected: the crew of the Kursk did not die instantly, as Russian authorities claimed. How could Rosenblatt fail to have addressed the issue that Russia does not value life any more today than...
...gonna take you down!" Luis Rosero, a Democratic observer, claims he was punched and kicked. Republicans dispute the charges, but video cameras caught scenes of activism that had morphed into menace. The organizers in the RV outside, who GOP protesters have told TIME were led by hardball Washington strategist Roger Stone, had phone banks churning out calls to Miami Republicans, urging them to storm downtown. (Stone could not be reached for comment.) One of them was a fire fighter, Rob Eltus, 45: "What Americans are finally seeing is Republicans...
...Roger Wilkins Civil rights activist and professor at George Mason University...
...package: a photo album of private scenes from this campaign, a reconstruction of its key moments, a forum of fascinating folks (ranging from Jesse Ventura to Doris Kearns Goodwin to Garry Trudeau) assessing what we'll someday make of President Clinton, plus analysis from Margaret Carlson, Lance Morrow, Roger Rosenblatt and Charles Krauthammer, and some humor from Christopher Buckley and Joel Stein. Pulling it all together were our national-affairs team led by Steve Koepp, Priscilla Painton, Michael Duffy, Nancy Gibbs and Ratu Kamlani...