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...Soon after her 10th birthday, they left their jobs in Tampa, Fla.--Camelia worked in a hair salon, Dumitru as a used-car dealer--to follow her to the Houston gym of legendary trainer Bela Karolyi to preside over her vault into the spotlight. In a best-selling autobiography written on the eve of the Atlanta Olympics, Dominique, 14 years old and headed for gold, thanked her parents. "I look in the mirror and see Dominique Moceanu, my parents' daughter," she wrote. "That's good enough...
...ultimatum!" Netanyahu, backing down, protested that he had been asleep and hadn't authorized any departure. (In fact, American officials said, he had given the orders to load the helicopters for the flight to Andrews Air Force Base.) The blowout wasn't a total surprise: U.S. officials had written memos predicting at least one, probably two, Bibi meltdowns en route to a deal. At 2 a.m., the first meltdown controlled, the Americans gave both sides a draft agreement...
NADYA LABI, in three years at TIME, has written about the schoolyard killings in Jonesboro, Ark., and the crash of Swiss Air Flight 111. In this week's American Scene, she weighs in on a brighter topic: the culture clash in a small city outside Los Angeles, where certain residents paint their homes in vivid yellows and pinks, to the distress of some of their neighbors. While she appreciated the change of topic, the trip wasn't so lighthearted as she anticipated. "I didn't know colors could provoke such strong emotions," she says. Labi, who is moving into...
...where A Man in Full begins. The trip readers make from there to the end of the book will store up fuel for literary discussions and debates throughout, and probably beyond, the coming winter. The 1.2 million copies of its first printing, an astounding number for a novel not written by somebody named Clancy or Grisham, are heading toward the stores. And the book has already received a publicity boost that exceeds the power of purse strings: four weeks before the Nov. 12 publication date, A Man in Full was nominated for a 1998 National Book Award...
Like most African Americans, I have the legacy of slavery written all over my face. My brow, for example, resembles that of my father's father, who was born a slave in northern Florida. The sponsor's slogan for the powerful series Africans in America, which aired on PBS last week, rightly insisted that the story of slavery is not just African-American history but American history. But for blacks like me, it's also family history, a link to the oppressive past so intense and personal that it stares back whenever we look in a mirror...