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...back to their story. It was to use people that were known, so that he did not have to introduce them, and then to make something new, which had to do with Johan's relations: the grandchild, the son and the wife's death. And Marianne is the stranger who wandered into it. Maybe she is the only one who was somewhat changed by it, by seeing and observing...
Dershowitz, an outspoken critic of Finkelstein and no stranger to controversy himself, admitted to making such overtures, but said that his requests were not intended to bar the book’s publication entirely. Rather, he says, he tried to encourage the press to give “serious consideration” to publishing Finkelstein’s charge that Dershowitz did not actually write, and may not have even read, one of his own books, “The Case for Israel”—an accusation that Dershowitz calls “a clear, willful...
...There Before is not limited to a hothouse audience of academics. It demands only a nodding, layman's acquaintance with Twain's work, although buffs will note that the tone of this old, tired Twain is the authentic voice of books from late in his life, particularly The Mysterious Stranger. Here, Twain is a touching figure, confident of his literary skill yet desperately lonely upon returning to earth decades after the demise of everyone he knew. The writings attributed to him ring true. So do his poignant yearnings, not for literary immortality but for the sweet sleep of mortal oblivion...
...being distorted by a liberal journalistic elite that is out of touch with the rest of America? Conservative pressure groups with lots of money to spend spread these charges far and wide. Recent cover stories in two professional magazines challenge the accuracy of the findings. But what is stranger is that the accusations no longer seem to matter so much, and the reason is Ronald Reagan...
Apparently they were wrong. On Christmas Eve, a tall, thin, bearded man came to the door of the house in the affluent Madrona neighborhood where the Goldmarks lived with their two sons, Derek, 12, and Colin, 10. The stranger forced his way in, waving what later turned out to be a toy gun at the shocked family. According to police, he chloroformed the Goldmarks, handcuffed them, stabbed them repeatedly and bludgeoned them with a steam iron. The assailant left Annie Goldmark, 43, dead and her husband and two sons critically injured. Colin died several days later. Late last week, Derek...