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Garrison Keillor's first novel, WLT: A Radio Romance, trips off his tongue as smoothly as an old-time Lutheran gospel, and it flows as easily as sketches on his old radio show, A Prairie Home Companion. WLT is the latest of several published works, but anyone who has heard...
In an ad in the New York Times last week, Syrian President HAFEZ ASSAD courted American investors and tourists, touting his country as "a land of castles, citadels and colonnades." Trouble is, some of the locals have grisly tales to tell. Most notable is the story of the ancient city...
The performances by American educator Thomas Sutherland and British church envoy Terry Waite as they emerged last week from years of captivity testified to the remarkable resiliency of the human spirit. Sutherland, 60, who spent most of his 2,347 days as a hostage in Lebanon tethered by ankle chains...
An old drama series like The Fugitive (with David Janssen as Dr. Richard Kimble, on the run after being wrongly convicted of murder) looks hopelessly unfashionable today, with its melodramatic narration, simplistic characters and stubborn avoidance of social relevance (no date rapists to be found). It does offer, however, something...
Tales of a Master Spy From the Other Side The former chief of East German intelligence and the model for John le Carre's Karla, MARKUS WOLF talks about espionage in the bad old days of the cold war, why he returned from Moscow to face possible imprisonment and what...