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...locations varied. The most common strategy was flattery. The Boston Herald's Helen Kennedy tried this tactic, but quickly gave up. One TV station all but offered the reporter a job. The Crimson wouldn't budge. "You've got an exclusive," Kennedy said with a sigh. "I understand why you're keeping...
Said (pronounced Sigh-eed) owes his fame partly to his cultural criticism, notably his 1978 book Orientalism, a study of how ideas and images about the Arab world were contrived by Western writers and why. Now comes Culture and Imperialism (Knopf; $25). A plum pudding of a book, with excursions on such matters as Irish-nationalist poetry and the building of an opera house in Cairo for the launch of Verdi's Aida, it is the product of a culturally hypersaturated mind, moving between art and politics, showing how they do or might intermesh -- but never with the coarse ideological...
This illusion pretended that if Democrats controlled the presidency and Congress, gridlock would end. During the campaign, liberals could list the well-intentioned legislation that had been passed recently and sigh, "If only Bush hadn't vetoed...
...whites and blacks are treated by the criminal-justice system. Many Angelenos fear that a volatile situation will be created if the four officers are exonerated and the Denny defendants are found guilty. Thus a ruling last week by Superior Court Judge John Ouderkirk produced a collective, if temporary, sigh of relief. He postponed the Denny trial until July, which will give the defense time to bolster its claim that the prosecution is racially motivated. The defense points to what it describes as a decade-long pattern of discriminatory prosecutions. If the judge agrees, the case will be dismissed...
After months of arduous public evaluation and tense city council meetings. City Manager Robert W. Healy can breathe a sigh of relief...