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...February, Riverhead will publish "Miracle at Saint Ana," the hotly anticipated fiction debut of James McBride, author of the best-selling "The Color of Water." According to PW, "Set in Italy in WWII and based on the famed Buffalo Soldiers of the 92nd Infantry, ?Miracle at Saint Ana? focuses on four American Negro men, a band of partisans and an Italian boy who find redemption in the aftermath of a massacre...
...master of the dot in French painting? Georges Seurat, most would answer. But there was at least one other: Seurat's friend and luminous fellow painter, Neo-Impressionist Paul Signac (1863-1935). Signac, an avid yachtsman, helped create the French Riviera as a subject for painting--and Saint-Tropez, where he settled from 1892 on, as a mecca for tourism. His pursuit of pure color sensation, the yellow of beaches and the purple of shade under the umbrella-pines, made his canvases radical in their time. Yet to a modern eye, his paradisiacal view of the world--a world...
...David Larson, professor and senior fellow at the Dispute Resolution Institute at Hamline University School of Law in Saint Paul, Minnesota, says some skepticism is always handy when analyzing this kind of potentially loaded data. Earlier this month, the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative organization, also published a report on employee attitudes, one that looks very different from the AFL-CIO release. "The AEI report shows that workers continue to be very satisfied with their work and their employers," says Larson. "And the AFL-CIO study says exactly the opposite. So you have to wonder who these organizations are talking...
...arrested, we will rise up." She gestures at a portrait of "my man," displayed on a back wall, alongside Serbian-orthodox icons of Mary, the baby Jesus and St. Sava. "He is not a war criminal," she says, gazing at Karadzic's picture. "He is a saint...
...happier than to see Hubert de Givenchy at one of his shows and chances are this collection - packed full of references to the work of the old man - will appeal to whatever original Givenchy clients still remain. At the other end of the haute couture schedule was Yves Saint Laurent. Not the Yves Saint Laurent that held a bash for a new perfume, Nu, featuring nearly-naked dancers in a transparent tube. Not the YSL that clothed newly-single Nicole Kidman at Cannes and Claudia Schiffer at a Bulgari party in Rome. That was all the work of Gucci Group...