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Nora was Joyce's "portable Ireland," and he frequently read into her experiences, songs and tales for his inspiration. Nora's unpunctuated letters to Joyce were the basis of Molly's monologue at the end of his masterpiece. All of his major female characters share her wit, personality and touching...
SCIENCE FRICTION, acidly quipped one Paris newspaper. Across the English Channel in London, Britain's New Scientist magazine howled, NATURE SENDS IN THE GHOST BUSTERS TO SOLVE RIDDLE OF THE ANTIBODIES. After a month of heated controversy and speculation, the curtain fell last week, at least for now, on one...
But like many of the retired Marine lieutenant colonel's tales, the allegations made by Hudson seemed inflated. Mousa Hawamda, a Jordanian American who runs a Washington travel agency, had been arrested, along with seven others, on charges of diverting funds from a Libyan student organization | to bankroll pro-Gaddafi...
As trains chugged alongside the food table, the guests munched bread, cheese and apples, and their raggedy hosts regaled them with tales of alleged harassment by local authorities. The Soviets were "shocked," said Professor Peter Serdyukov of Kiev, to see such conditions "in a rich and beautiful country like the...
As the years passed, he would speak more warmly about Kennedy, and remember even more ties than there were. He now answers "Kennedy" when asked who most drew him toward politics -- an answer that intrigues Martin Linsky, a Brookliner who went on, like Dukakis, to the state legislature and Harvard...