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...Charles Martel...
...only does not share but too often fails to understand. Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger, the Arch-bishop of Paris, points out that the French have a "fascination and aversion" toward the Arabs. "It goes back even to Poitiers, which, as every French schoolboy learns, was where Charles Martel stopped the Arab conquest of Europe in 732." Lustiger could have added that Europeans also have a way of becoming mired in their own history to the point of paralysis...
HEINZ KERRY: I haven't had time. Reading on the campaign trail is studying, studying, studying, studying and newspapers and studying. I've been reading the Life of Pi [Yann Martel] and Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight [Alexandra Fuller], little chapters here and there, and A History of the American People by Paul Johnson. And that's all the books I can read right...
...Apparently not. This week, the third annual Hong Kong International Literary Festival will bring together international and Asian writers for eight days of discussions and seminars, most of which are open to the public. Yann Martel, Canadian author of the Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi will attend, along with Shobha D?India's answer to Jackie Collins?and Indonesian literary dissident Pramoedya Ananta Toer. (Nobel prizewinner V.S. Naipaul was scheduled to attend but begged off with a literary excuse?he's busy writing...
PSLM also sent a letter Friday to Peter J. Martel, an official with library Human Resources, protesting Fenstermacher’s situation and accusing the library of arbitrarily denying Fenstermacher representation...