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...world into people and things with "Jewish" traits (including poplar trees, Jimmy Stewart and John Lennon) and "goyish" traits (including oak trees, Elvis fans and the Jewish troubadour Leonard Cohen). It's inspired by a Lenny Bruce riff, the novel's epigraph, but it becomes a predictable dog-people-vs.-cat-people dichotomy. In her narrative Smith acknowledges and dismisses the pop-psychological interpretations that Alex's book invites--"The Mixed-race people see things double theory and the fatherless children seek out restored symmetry [theory]"--but this is just a self-conscious cop-out. Likewise, Alex's best friend...
Arafat, who said he would die a martyr before surrendering, has escaped desperate situations before, and he relies on such David-vs.-Goliath moments to boost his popularity with ordinary Palestinians. But last week, penned in by his enemy and with even his own followers questioning his position, he looked more like a frail man surrounded by rubble than the builder of a future state. --With reporting by Jamil Hamad/Jerusalem and Aharon Klein/Ramallah
...Senate Race Gray Davis Leads By Default PA's Blue Dog Hangs Tough NY's Bleeding-Heart Republican Paul Wellstone: 1944-2002 Iowa: Dialing for Dollars AZ Governor: Being Themselves IN House: By Foot and Humvee What Kennedy Mystique? AK Senate: The Family Business CT House: Goliath vs. Goliath More Stories...
...Senate Race Gray Davis Leads By Default PA's Blue Dog Hangs Tough NY's Bleeding-Heart Republican Paul Wellstone: 1944-2002 Iowa: Dialing for Dollars AZ Governor: Being Themselves IN House: By Foot and Humvee What Kennedy Mystique? AK Senate: The Family Business CT House: Goliath vs. Goliath More Stories...
...Senate Race Gray Davis Leads By Default PA's Blue Dog Hangs Tough NY's Bleeding-Heart Republican Paul Wellstone: 1944-2002 Iowa: Dialing for Dollars AZ Governor: Being Themselves IN House: By Foot and Humvee What Kennedy Mystique? AK Senate: The Family Business CT House: Goliath vs. Goliath More Stories...