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The press may be overdoing it, but it's mostly the Senator's self-destructive behavior that's to blame. It began in the mid-'90s with David Chang, a Korean-American businessman who wanted help getting money that North Korea owed him. Chang has woven extravagant tales of giving...
Leela Corman's "Subway Series" (Alternative Comics; 144pp.; $9.95) follows her 1999 self-published debut, "Queen's Day." Where her first book collected short, enigmatic tales of women lost in far-away places, "Subway Series" has Corman carrying a similar theme to novel length. Though still lost, her characters have...
When Doug Harvey--a former umpire so esteemed by National League players that they called him "God"--said to Leavy, "I have as much respect for Sandy Koufax as for any man I've ever met in my life," he wasn't talking about Koufax's skill. It was not...
Forced marriages. Baby drownings. Rapes. Anyone who has followed the history of Chinese women cannot help but be touched by woeful tales of indignity, torment?even torture?that innocent daughters, wives and mothers have suffered. Consider the story of Hongxue, a bright girl whose father began sexually abusing her at...
The press may be overdoing it, but it's mostly the Senator's self-destructive behavior that's to blame. It began in the mid-'90s with David Chang, a Korean-American businessman who wanted help getting money that North Korea owed him. Chang has woven extravagant tales of giving...