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...Dhabi. She took him back to Manila to live with her mother when he was 3 months old, and left him there for 11 years while she continued working in the Middle East. "Now, sometimes when we fight, he'll say, 'Why did you leave me?'" Having spent all those years away, she says, "Even if I gave him material things, it's not enough...
Makeba--who often said she would perform until the last day of her life--spent her final moments onstage near Naples, Italy, singing those very words: "Pata Pata is the name of a dance...
...putting spending power in the hands of hundreds of millions of Americans rather than in those of a few bureaucrats, but there is a catch. People tend to save part of their tax rebates. In 2001 about two-thirds of the $38 billion mailed out to taxpayers was spent within six months. It looks as if the spending percentage will be smaller for this year's $95 billion in rebates...
...dead. At the time of his death, from liver disease, in 2003, Bolaņo was a major writer in the Spanish-speaking world but virtually unknown and untranslated in English. Why that should be is not much of a mystery. Bolaņo, who was born in Chile and spent most of his life in Mexico and Spain, is a difficult, angry, self-reflexive writer who lived an erratic and occasionally unpleasant life. And Americans, as the head of the Swedish Academy has annoyingly but rightly pointed out, don't read much fiction in translation...
Obama has made a particular point of invoking the individual will of African Americans, but anyone who has spent time in a black church or barbershop--or just watched the crowds when Obama puts forth the message--can tell you that it isn't exactly a tough sell. When Jesse Jackson claimed that Obama was "talking down to black people," there was no real rush among blacks to defend Jackson. That's because, in terms of their outlook, their belief in hard work and family, African Americans aren't any different from white Americans. (See pictures of Barack Obama...