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...thought, if we just stuck together. We would take back the White House, and the statehouses and city halls and town councils. We’d keep the Congress. And in order to ensure a permanent left majority, Gwyn, we’d have many left-wing babies.” The problem is that while “Literary Men” is a fascinating collection of ideas and insights, it does not satisfy as a novel. It is not that Gessen does not care for his characters or eschews the details of his fictional world (which...
...essay - which warns Cubans to "meditate hard" on the policy changes and avoid "shameful concessions" - is the latest step in a strange sibling dance. Though long considered a hard-line communist, whose enemies accuse him of overseeing summary executions of soldiers loyal to former right-wing Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista in the revolution's early days, Raul is considerably more pragmatic than the obdurately ideological Fidel. His encouragement of limited market-oriented policies like foreign investment in tourism helped see Cuba through its frightening "special period" after the island's lavish Soviet aid vanished in the 1990s...
...better remembered as the revolutionary sex kitten of 1960s French cinema, but these days Brigitte Bardot is better known as a standard-bearer of the anti-immigrant wing of France's political spectrum. Bardot went on trial Tuesday charged with "inciting racial hatred," and in view of her four previous convictions on similar charges, prosecutors sought exceptionally stiff penalties of $22,000 and a two-month suspended sentence...
...manor’s opposite wing, Frederick finished his decanter of port. Sprawled across the Abyssinian carpet which reached from one end of the wood-paneled study to the other, he had been perusing his old sketchbook. It was bound in what he believed to be the finest Italian leather. Its pages were filled with what he believed to be the seeds of genius...
...further the process along have been marred throughout by political squabbling and vigilante violence. In the run-up to yesterday's elections, at least 60 people were killed. Reports filtered in every day of bombings, kidnappings, and armed thugs-especially from the Young Communist League, a Maoist youth wing-running riot...