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...tell you about ..." So begin the e-mail missives of Hiroshi Sakamoto, the septuagenarian survivor of the atomic bomb in Nagasaki, whose love of haiku poetry is later parlayed into an appreciation of all things modern. In Gail Jones' seductive new novel, his captive audience is young Australian Alice Black, who is researching her book, The Poetics of Modernity. And over the course of Dreams of Speaking (Vintage; 214 pages), a succession of machines are summoned, from the Xerox copier to the neon tube, to glow in the novel's velvety darkness. Here the things which bring people together also...
Shows: Syndicated Tyra Banks Show and UPN's America's Next Top Model Concepts: Oprah for teens and Survivor for pretty girls Model behavior: Complains about her cellulite. Oprah should sock...
Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, 77, is a teacher, writer--and survivor. His memoir Night, chronicling his time in Nazi concentration camps, was named last week as the latest selection of Oprah's Book Club. The Boston University humanities professor spoke with TIME's Jeff Chu about reaching new audiences, the trendiness of Kabbalah and why he admires Moses...
...looks tired and stressed while maintaining that he is cooperating with the investigation. He declares that he will be vindicated. He says that any suggestion that he will resign is ?irresponsible.? In the battle of the Hills Tribe and the Square Tribe, he expects to be the survivor. He has scoffed at disaster before. Once, while he was at the top of the world, Horie said that ?even if you fail, the worst that you can end up with is zero. You can always reset.? No doubt he now realizes there is one result even worse than zero-and that...
...reality, rescuers at the bottom of the West Virginia mine had said there were no more survivors-and rescuers at the surface, listening through a scratchy connection, had misunderstood. "They managed to turn this town upside down", said Terry Hinchman, a boyhood friend of a deceased miner, Fred Ware Jr., and cousin of another, Marty Bennett. The only survivor: Ronald McCloy, age 23, the youngest of the group. Taken to Ruby Hospital in Morgantown, he was listed in serious condition...