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...success as a writer came quickly. She graduated from Barnard College in 1990 and earned an M.F.A. from Brown three years later. Her first novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory, a semi-autobiographical tale of a Haitian girl reunited with her mother in the U.S., was published in 1994. The lyrical and haunting short-story collection Krik? Krak! came out the following year. And earlier this year, Danticat won the literary lottery when Oprah Winfrey chose Breath, Eyes, Memory as the June selection for her hugely popular on-air book club. "The call came out of the blue," says Danticat...
...strict currency controls and save the embattled Malaysian ringgit simply by removing it from the fray. The theory is attractive, especially to the prickly Mahathir: An inconvertible currency can't come under attack by evil foreign speculators, and that frees the safely walled-in government to take a deep breath, lower its internal interest rates, and pull itself out of recession by stimulating domestic growth -? without subjecting its every move to the brutish vagaries of the global marketplace...
...wait on Monday. The day began with an NBC poll showing Clinton's job approval at an all-time high, 70%. The markets were happy too: the Dow jumped 150 points. The weather in Washington was baffled, raining and shining and raining again through air that defied you to breath it. On "Monica beach," the 50-yd. stretch of White House gravel where the TV reporters do their stand-ups, 35 bright umbrellas sprouted like mushrooms, and the pressroom was packed despite a complete absence of news. Outside the White House, a man was arrested after he cut his throat...
...displayed as never before a splendid gift for conversation, for friendship (I knew him a little), for teaching (he was a professor for years at the University of South Carolina) and for fatherhood. It was in that last period--his once massive and muscular body shrunken, gasping for breath because of a fibrosis of the lungs--that James and Christopher Dickey drew together after years of estrangement and that Christopher began writing Summer of Deliverance...
...balance Gingrich has had a difficult time finding. When the Lewinsky story broke in January, the Speaker showed surprising restraint given his lashings during earlier Clinton scandals. "I think we should all take a deep breath and wait for the facts," he advised with statesmanlike solemnity...