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None of this is good or bad; it just is. The books of the future may not meet all the conventional criteria for literary value that we have today, or any of them. But if that sounds alarming or tragic, go back and sample the righteous zeal with which people despised novels when they first arose. They thought novels were vulgar and immoral. And in a way they were, and that was what was great about them: they shocked and seduced people into new ways of thinking. These books will too. Somewhere out there is the self-publishing world...
...Ever-Subtler Second. From the depiction of high drama as his father taught it, Wyeth has narrowed down to the moments when life is charged with change, swapping N.C.'s clash of cut lasses for his own clap of distant thunder. Sometimes it is only the tragic twinkle of quaker ladies, blossoming while he watches and fading in the frosty dew of early spring. Disciplining the romantic inside him, he has sought the ever-subtler second when existence is galvanized by the unexpected...
Spending Where it Counts Re Inbox Dec. 22: Sol Kerzner, along with other South African hoteliers, donated a large sum to kick-start the fund for a new hotel school at the University of Johannesburg. Without this the school probably would not exist today. After the tragic death of Sol's son, the family started the Butch Kerzner memorial bursary fund for underprivileged gifted children to study in the hospitality industry. This will fund up to 10 children's studies next year. Beside all this is the example Kerzner has set for others to grow our industry. Henk Bredenoord...
...worthy ideals like education, enlightenment, and opportunities for all only to betray them for their own personal interest. As they became what they most hated, their socialism showed symptoms of the worst kind of individualistic and corrupted ethos. And those around the region who choose to remember a tragic revolution in positive light share a similar duplicity...
...influential godfathers in Congress - but it never completed those levees around New Orleans. Now the stimulus could include forward-looking efforts to help rebuild the city's natural and man-made defenses - or more-of-the-same projects that would increase the risk of another expensive as well as tragic catastrophe. It will depend on who is calling the shots...