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Born poor in Chicago, where he shared a bedroom with his mother and sister, Deval Patrick became a prominent civil rights lawyer and was sworn in last month as Governor of Massachusetts, his first elected office. A few weeks into the job, Patrick, 50, talked to TIME's Perry Bacon Jr. about the pitfalls of a "color-blind" America, the likelihood of his state's universal health-care coverage being adopted nationwide and the politics of baseball...
...said that children should be seen, not heard, but that expression is sometimes better applied to parents. Until recently the most egregious parental oversharing was usually your sister-in-law's Christmas letter or the guy with the endless stream of baby photos. But there's a new species of chatty dad and mom: the hipster parent-memoirist...
...Consul and The Saint of Bleecker Street. But he was best known for the 45-min. Amahl and the Night Visitors, a Christmas opera he wrote for TV. He continued his efforts to democratize the art in 1958 by founding Italy's influential Spoleto Festival (and later its sister festival in Charleston, S.C.), which helped launch the careers of such artists as singer Shirley Verrett and dancers turned choreographers Paul Taylor and Twyla Tharp...
...produced several children, including Adolf (known here as “Adi”). As the family—of which each member, with the notable exception of Adolf, is portrayed with remarkable clarity and complexity—works and grows, the strong-headed eldest son rebels, the motherly sister matures, and young Adi lives a relatively normal life only occasionally punctuated by hints of his menace. Oh, and they raise a lot of bees.How did this result in one of the most evil men in history? I still don’t know, because Mailer’s answer...
...rare feat in the entertainment industry, and released the work last December. While critics were not enthused by the book, the jury is still out on the movie. Set after World War II, the film follows Lecter as he witnesses multiple atrocities of the Eastern front with his sister Mischa. After Mischa is gruesomely murdered—devoured, you could say—by a group of Nazi sympathizers, he is adopted by his uncle and the beautiful Lady Murasaki Shikibu (Gong Li), a foil to Clarice Starling and the love interest for Lecter. Though Hopkins was not the first...