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KAZUO ISHIGURO'S THE REMAINS of the Day (1989) is an astonishing novel in several regards. Its narrator, an aging and obsessively punctilious butler named Stevens, sets out in 1956 on a motoring trip; he wants to persuade Miss Kenton, a former housekeeper at Darlington Hall, to come back and...
All that was merely the finale of a term in which the court's conservatives tightened the screws on affirmative action, said "enough" to a famous effort to achieve school desegregation, approved suspicionless drug testing for high school athletes and forbade Congress to extend power over the states. What made...
Dr. Henry Foster's chances of becoming the next surgeon generalplummeted when Senate supporters today failed, 57 to 43, to muster the 60 votes needed to block a threatened filibuster and bring his nomination to a vote. The Tennessee physician has the 51 votes he needs for confirmation, but the...
Babe Ruth was a champion at almost everything he did. The dominant player in baseball history, he transformed the way the game was played. Off the field, he could scarf down 18-egg omelets, chug-a-lug boilermakers (ice cubes and all) and, it has been claimed, make love seven...
At a recent three-day conference honoring the centennial of Ruth's birthday, Stevens was on hand to see the Babe finally earn a measure of academic respect. Indeed - -with 26 panel discussions ranging from "Whitmanesque Hero" to "What Would Ruth Earn Today?" -- Hofstra University accorded the slugger the same...