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Humor columnist Dave Barry has written his first novel, Big Trouble...
...Second, unlike Bush and Gore, Bradley doesn't mention God during his poetic flights. He is a believer--he was raised a Presbyterian, passed through a period of Christian Fundamentalism while young, but then rejected what he has since called "the narrowness of view" of evangelicals. He has written about being "open" to the essential truth of all faiths, but today he declines to discuss the subject. "That's one of the places where I draw the line," he says, and that feels refreshing in a year when other pols call press conferences to discuss their personal relationships with...
...south of Beijing, is one of the country's most popular tourist sites--especially among would-be grandmothers, who trudge to the top, drape red strings over trees and then return home to wait for the grandson this ritual is supposed to guarantee. The searching need for faith is written on the faces of the Chinese who pace each day, by the thousands, through the "Confucian forest" in Qufu. There, among the 600-year-old birch trees, are buried 77 generations of Confucius' descendants. Their graves, trashed and looted during the Cultural Revolution, have been rebuilt and remade in this...
...None. We were relying on the fact that people going through that phase won't really remember the first book. On a lot of the books you can just see the 4 crossed out and a 5 written over it. It sold really well anyway...
After Rwanda and Kosovo, another dark page of modern history is being written in East Timor by the Indonesian army. It's a shame the international community did not react faster in condemning Indonesia and preventing the genocide, which has been ongoing since the mid-'70s in East Timor. Above all political and economic considerations, the international community should never forget that the brave people of East Timor are struggling (and dying) for something that is so dear to all of us: freedom. MIGUEL LUCAS Lisbon...