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Fantasy, birth, and appellation are three themes that Budnitz explores thoroughly in this 12-story collection. The first story, entitled “Where We Come From,” features Precious, an impoverished woman in an anonymous third-world nation. (The odd name was chosen by Precious’s mother as a consistent and much-needed reminder that her love for her sons extended to her daughter.) Precious carries a child for three toil-filled years through many attempts to cross the border into the States, in order to produce the “nice big American baby?...
...nuclear option. Thus the only way out for the superpowers is arms control, but "arms control must not be sought as a goal in itself. Far more important is our political understanding of the Soviets." For Nixon, this is where things get interesting, where the country gets interesting. Odd to realize that Nixon's America is not home and hearth, not the Fourth of July. It is a European empire, removed from Europe and without imperial designs, yet still the world's main player...
...political and historical perspective, Rosenblatt interviewed former President Richard Nixon. "He might seem an odd choice," says Rosenblatt, "but he has a historian's mind and an extraordinary understanding of the world since the 1940s. And for 14 of the 40 years since Hiroshima, he had the authority to use nuclear weapons or was second in command...
Still, the schools remained in trouble. Last year Boston's enrollment had plummeted to 56,000, from 93,000 in 1973. Whites account for just 27% of the remaining students. Illiteracy in high schools stands at 20%, the dropout rate at about 48%. But Garrity, displaying an odd mixture of public belligerence and personal shyness, refused invitations from Superintendent Spillane to visit the schools. "The pathetic part," says Spillane, "is that it seems that he's almost in fear of discovering what is really going...
...often said, "Success has many parents, but failure is an orphan." It is odd that among the multiparents of Mogul Spielberg, no mention was made of Richard Zanuck and David Brown, who introduced Spielberg to the world of feature motion pictures by producing Spielberg's first two feature-length films, the acclaimed Sugarland Express and the legendary Jaws. We need no recognition for ourselves, but Zanuck/Brown might have had at least a footnote in your cover story. Richard D. Zanuck David Brown New York City America's Changing Face...