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And that's before she gets the bad news: her younger sister Madeleine, who has everything to live for, has leukemia. That's the setup in Elisabeth Robinson's The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters, a novel that's likely to be the first pleasant literary surprise...
Wow, what a surprise that the rich are getting richer under a Republican President. I personally think this country is spinning out of control under this Administration, with a war that nobody wants, a relaxation of environmental-protection laws and states and cities that are bankrupt. If Bush is a...
Ideally, Beijing would like to maintain the status quo: a weak but relatively stable North Korea not openly engaged in building a nuclear arsenal. Says Chu Shulong, a political scientist at Tsinghua University in Beijing: "China is more concerned about a crisis spinning out of control." Few anywhere want that...
The inner workings of Burma's repressive military government are a puzzle on par with that other hermit government, North Korea. It's a measure of the unfathomability that after last week's surprise leadership reshuffle, in which strongman General Than Shwe was replaced as Prime Minister by head of...
Of Hope and Glory I was, frankly, shocked by Richard Schickel's backhanded tribute to the legendary Bob Hope [ESSAY, Aug. 11]. Schickel said, "There was no depth to Hope." But the comedian provided millions of us with happiness, laughter and respite from rationing, poverty and rebuilding during the difficult...