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...career as a journalist and watched with satisfaction as the Portuguese finally retreated from East Timor. But peace was short lived; the following year Indonesian President Suharto ordered his troops to invade. Gusmao joined the resistance, fleeing into the mists of the heavily forested mountains that run the length of the island. By 1981 he was leader of the resistance--and for Indonesia's special forces, the most wanted man in the country. Gusmao eluded capture until 1992. But on a secret trip to Dili, a contact betrayed him, and the rebel leader was arrested...
...very unusual for Harvard," Babcock said. "Her dealings with kids were so personal, not at arm length...
Home Comforts has a lot of answers--answers to questions I've had (no, don't keep bread in the refrigerator), questions I never thought to ask (wash your hands for the length of Yankee Doodle) and answers to questions that have been asked of me. Once on a bus through San Francisco's Chinatown, a recent immigrant took some pants out of a Gap bag, pointed to the label and asked me, "What is twill?" If only back then I'd had page 198 under my belt...
When primaries took hold in the '70s, TPOS deplored the loss of seasoned political pros as gatekeepers and warned that the qualities needed to be a good candidate are not necessarily those required to be a good President. Later, TPOS switched their focus to the wearying length of the primary season, which stretched from February through June. This year, as the system became increasingly front loaded, the complaint was that the big states would be shut out, giving even more power to tiny, unrepresentative states like Iowa and New Hampshire...
...people probably knew those lines a few weeks ago, but they are about to become the most familiar on Broadway. They're the opening couplet of The Wild Party, a book-length narrative poem by Joseph Moncure March published in 1928. The author was a former New Yorker editor, and the poem caused something of a scandal in its day (it was banned--no fooling--in Boston). But it was long out of print until a new edition, illustrated by the cartoonist Art Spiegelman, appeared in 1994. In the introduction, Spiegelman reported that a big fan of the poem...