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...signs of what might be called a movement against the tyranny of charisma. "The people are voicing their opinion for another figure who can hold the spotlight like Karol Wojtyla," says Vittorio Messori, a church historian who helped focus that spotlight by editing the late Pontiff's best seller Crossing the Threshold of Hope. "But what the church needs now is structure, governance and patient service." That sentiment is echoed by a surprisingly wide cross section of clerics who think that the former Pope's flair for the symbolic gesture sometimes came at the expense of administrative housecleaning. Even JOSEPH...
Herzog, his one great commercial success--it sold 142,000 copies and spent 42 weeks on the best-seller list--is his most difficult book but also his funniest. Herzog is an academic in the midst of a nervous breakdown: his wife has left him, he wanders aimlessly from New York City to Martha's Vineyard to Chicago and finally to his ramshackle farmhouse in the Berkshires, composing letters in his head to girlfriends and ex-wives, Heidegger and Willie Sutton, the living and the dead. His last letter is to himself. "This strange organization, I know it will...
...police brutality. Ties with the U.S. are also frayed over uncertainties about post-war Iraq. Observers note that the country's best-seller lists currently include Adolf Hitler's autobiography Mein Kampf and Metal Storm, a fictional debut by two local authors in which the U.S. invades Turkey. "This is just the beginning," warns Berkan. "I expect this wave of nationalism to grow." - By Pelin Turgut Hard Times UNITED NATIONS Secretary General Kofi Annan proposed reforms to the global body, including enlarging the Security Council and establishing new rules for authorizing military force. The broadly welcomed proposals were overshadowed...
...Monk Kidd's first novel was a miraculous anomaly. A wise, tender little coming-of-age tale about a Southern girl finding herself, The Secret Life of Bees unexpectedly found itself on the best-seller lists and went on to sell 31/2 million copies. The heroine of Kidd's second novel, The Mermaid Chair (Viking; 335 pages), has already come of age, some time ago in fact. But her problems are just getting started...
...Chinese people have been oppressed and insulted for too long by their officials, and this book touches a chord in us-we want the freedom that wolves have." AN BOSHUN, publisher of the Chinese best seller Wolf Totem, which urges Chinese citizens to imitate lupine aggression and teamwork...