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Like hundreds of other Americans who worked in Saudi Arabia in the late 1970s, Keene and Maes returned with tales of torture and virtual enslavement by their employers.
First reports were that only eight prisoners had been killed Oct. 2 when police stormed Carandiru penitentiary in Brazil's commercial capital of Sao Paulo to quell a riot. But then surviving prisoners began telling investigators and grieving relatives tales of a savage slaughter: prisoners allegedly machine-gunned as they...
THE BEST THING ABOUT TALES FROM HOLLYWOOD is its subject. Christopher Hampton's 1982 play focuses on leading German literary emigres who settled in the film capital in the '30s and '40s, namely Bertolt Brecht and Thomas Mann and his brother Heinrich (along with Austro-Hungarian dramatist Odon von Horvath...
What need had I of attending to this incident of the many in these "yet to be united states," a world where reports of racial unrest come and go in bewildering profusion, numbing the senses, hobbling the synapses that strive to process such tales of anger and pain. Please not...
Many forecasters seem to succumb to either excessive optimism or overheated pessimism. The overoptimists are heirs to the Golden Age of wishful thinking in the 19th century, when conventional wisdom foresaw ever greater prosperity and ease. Jules Verne invented science fiction in the 1860s with his tales of space flight...