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...work are generally less polished but often more effective than actors. Winston Groom reads his novel Forrest Gump in a husky Alabama drawl, delivering a lot more salt and a lot less sappiness than there is in the current hit movie. Hearing Stephen King read the beautifully modulated opening chapter of Needful Things is almost enough to convince you to stick around for the rest of the 24-hour tape. Almost but not quite: one odd aspect of the audio-book market is that King, perhaps the contemporary author who could most benefit from trimming, is the one whose books...
...also contributed to our coverage of the capture of Carlos, a chapter in a story that might be called the old face of terrorism. To separate fact from legend in this shadowy career, he detailed Carlos' extensive comings and goings in East Berlin during the 1970s and '80s. Explains Van Voorst: "It was a matter of checking documents and prosecution sources to triangulate important clues about Carlos' operations...
...chief exec of the nation's largest civil rights organization, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is hearing calls for his resignation -- from once-staunch supporters. The Chicago Southside chapter is demanding that Chavis resign because he settled a sexual harassment lawsuit with NAACP money. The Southside branch, with 20,000 members, is one of the largest in the country. TIME Senior Correspondent Jack White says that this latest news adds to the pressure on the NAACP's 64-member board to fire Chavis at its meeting this Saturday. But, White adds, "getting rid of Chavis would...
...Each chapter in the fate of Rwanda confirms just how much the catastrophe is the gruesome product not so much of tribal hatreds as of political ambition. The leaders of the defeated Hutu government continued to issue warnings of reprisals, mutilation and death if the refugees went home. Having lost the country, they were determined to hold on to the population and feed its hatreds in the hope of turning it one day into an invading force. For the victorious rebels of the largely Tutsi Rwandan Patriotic Front, the only hope for consolidating power as a legitimate government...
...Macy & Co. officially abandoned hopes of emerging from Chapter 11 bankruptcy as an independent, publicly held company with the announcement of a merger with Federated Department Stores, Inc. With more than 300 stores, the new Macy-Federated chain will become the nation's largest department-store company...