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The unusual outburst was triggered by a provocative newspaper article. The London Sunday Times, citing "sources close to the Queen," had reported that Elizabeth II was "dismayed by many of Mrs. Thatcher's policies." For weeks there had been rumors that Her Majesty was not amused by divisions within the...
According to Glamour, Pinede's Haitian immigrant parents influenced her decision to study Afro-American literature. "Unlike me, my parents did not have the freedom to study their own culture in school; the colonists' culture was the only legitimate one. Literature by outsiders of a particular society can show us...
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is surely the season's strangest book title. Nonetheless, the collection of literate yet authoritative case studies by Neurologist Oliver Sacks, 52, has been on bestseller lists across the country these past 13 weeks. "I am equally interested in diseases and...
The pop-charity events like Live Aid could help get the young into the habit of giving. But organizers are already worrying about "compassion fatigue." Pop charity may turn out to be one more passing fad. At the upper end of the economic scale, some wonder if charity is in...
American charity will never be an orderly or evenhanded process. Even so, millions still depend on private largesse, not just at home but abroad. Last year Americans sent more than $2 billion in private donations to the peoples of foreign countries. The Rockefeller Foundation alone will spend up to $300...