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...relegated to a life of cringing abjection on the outermost margins of the new South Africa. The work was haunted by disillusion and pessimism, and nobody was particularly surprised when Coetzee quietly departed for Australia in 2002, leaving some of us mulling a question: Is his Nobel really a triumph for the Rainbow Nation, as our newspapers claim? There's no point looking to Coetzee for clarification. He failed to show up for both of his Booker ceremonies, and who knows whether he will show up in Stockholm on Dec. 10 to collect his Nobel. When the novelist-heroine...
Flynt attained national notoriety with his 1988 Supreme Court triumph over Rev. Jerry Falwell, a social conservative who sued Hustler for publishing a cartoon suggesting that he had sex with his mother in an outhouse. The Court found in Flynt’s favor, establishing a precedent protecting obvious satire of a public figure even if it causes emotional distress. Eight years later, Flynt was immortalized by Woody Harrelson in the sympathetic Roman Polanski film, The People vs. Larry Flynt...
First, a confession. Last winter, during the interminable debates at the United Nations before the invasion of Iraq, I thought--and wrote--that if the U.S. and Britain went to war against Saddam Hussein, France would join them. That was a triumph of cynicism over judgment--a cynicism shared, though this is no excuse, by top officials in the U.S. State Department--and it was, obviously, dead wrong. France stayed out of the war. For a few months this seemed like a catastrophic error on France's part, as Saddam was toppled and the Bush Administration puffed out its chest...
First, a confession. Last winter, during the interminable debates at the United Nations before the invasion of Iraq, I thought - and wrote - that if the U.S. and Britain went to war against Saddam Hussein, France would join them. That was a triumph of cynicism over judgment - a cynicism shared, though this is no excuse, by top officials in the U.S. State Department - and it was, obviously, dead wrong. France stayed out of the war. For a few months this seemed like a catastrophic error on France's part, as Saddam was toppled and the Bush Administration puffed out its chest...
...dramatic comeback. No down-to-the-wire nailbiter. No triumph over injury. No breakout performance...