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...demanding independence and free elections as vindication of its push for democracy in the Arab world. This week 3 million Lebanese voters begin going to the polls to elect a government that the U.S. hopes will be the first in 29 years free of Syrian control. And in the saga's final, Shakespearean twist, it is Hariri's son Saad, 35, a political novice who briefly fled the country after Rafiq's death, who is favored to become the next Prime Minister...
Sayer's jazz drummer father, Gerry, and Betty, her frazzled mother, are bottle buddies who happen to have three small children. When her parents split, Sayer's freewheeling childhood descends into a grim saga: she moves from suburb to suburb, school to school, always at the mercy of Betty's genius for sabotaging her own security and picking up the wrong bloke at the pub. Amid this culture of poverty, mental illness, domestic violence, alcoholism and fear, Sayer blossoms. She finds ways to escape the misery, if only in bursts, through poetry, martial arts and music. Friends drop...
...cover story on Revenge of the Sith, director George Lucas' final addition to the Star Wars saga, prompted readers to share their memories of growing up with the space opera that changed popular culture...
...third episode of the “Star Wars” saga, which just opened, has only corroborated our feelings, with its message about power, propaganda and fear. As Harvard alumna Natalie Portman ’03 delivers the already widely-quoted line “This is how liberty dies—to thunderous applause,” we cringe, remembering last November...
...cover story on Revenge of the Sith, director George Lucas' final addition to the Star Wars saga, prompted readers to share their excitement about the new movie, their disappointment with Lucas' recent efforts and their happy memories of growing up with the space opera that changed popular culture...