Word: sams
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...hands of their offspring. "As a child, I liked the little boy and the story but I felt very bad about how he was depicted," says Julius Lester, an African-American writer who, along with illustrator Jerry Pinkney, also black, has reconfigured the book as Sam and The Tigers (Dial). "The original is a little masterpiece," argues illustrator Fred Marcellino, who's white. "Its good qualities really outweigh its racist elements." Marcellino has called his reworking The Story of Little Babaji (HarperCollins...
...life in return for his new clothes, and then steals them back when the tigers' vanity gets the better of them. Lester and Pinkney, who also reinterpreted the Uncle Remus books, have filled out the original narrative, setting the story in a fantasyland where every human is called Sam and animals talk (the tigers sound like up-to-the-minute hep cats, saying "Ain't I fine?" instead of "Now I'm the grandest tiger in the jungle!"). Lester and Pinkney also give the story--originally written in 1899 by a Scottish woman and set in India but with minstrel...
Beckett was born near Dublin, into a comfortable Irish Protestant family. At Trinity College, Dublin, Sam was first in his class. He studied in Paris and discovered as strong a love for the city as he had a hatred for the small-mindedness of old Eire. Sam went home thereafter only to see his family, especially his mother May, whose lingering death from Parkinson's disease touched him as he stared into her pained eyes. "These are the first eyes I think I truly see," he wrote to a friend, in a letter cited in Knowlson's biography...
...presidency. Six months later, Chun ordered a brutal crackdown of pro-democracy uprisings in the Kwang-ju province. The police action left some 200 dead, and Kwang-ju became a rallying cry for Korean dissidents. Roh succeeded Chun in 1988 and ruled until the current civilian president, Kim Young-sam, won power in 1992. It was Kim who began the reforms that led to the trial and conviction of the two former presidents. Roh's attorneys are expected to appeal his sentence, and an appeal of Chun's death sentence is automatic. TIME's Stella Kim reports from Seoul that...
...SAM BROWNBACK SENATORIAL CANDIDATE, KANSAS...