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...sophomore at his university, who tries too hard to show off her literary cool. Through Zora, Smith now pokes fun at this fault. The girl's cringeworthy attempts to achieve bohemian-chic status are sensitively chronicled, and by the end of the tale - but not before one final, angst-ridden blowout - a wiser, smarter and much cooler young woman has emerged. Smith has grown up, too. On Beauty, short-listed last week for the Man Booker Prize, is striking for the maturity of its sensibility and suggests that Smith is, indeed, a talent to watch over the long haul...
...still bed-ridden when news came through that Japan had surrendered. His sweetheart Marjorie Rushberry, the dark-haired nurse who had looked after him, went into town with girlfriends to celebrate. "But all the soldiers were going mad, grabbing girls and kissing them, so we decided to hotfoot it back to hospital," she says. The Kennas have been married for 58 years, and still live in the red-roofed house that locals in Kenna's home town of Hamilton, in Victoria's western wool district, built for them when he returned in 1946. The pale gums and sheep fields were...
...Jennings, who died this Sunday at 67 years of age, just four months after his primetime announcement that he had cancer, was unique among the ragtag group of journalists in Beirut back then; just a few years earlier, he had ridden his good looks and smooth voice to the pinnacle of broadcasting ? nightly news anchor for ABC ? at the age of 26, only to be ridiculed out of the job for being too young and inexperienced. But rather than retreating to a well-paid anchor job in some local market, says Rather, Jennings exiled himself to the Middle East...
...even in such a contentious climate, the museum at the Peace Memorial Park-which displays grim photos of the aftermath, remnants of clothes worn by victims, a twisted tricycle ridden by a little boy when the blast hit him -presents a persuasive warning to any leader who would consider returning the world to the nuclear brink. Compared with 10 years ago, these days the museum also provides far more context about what Japan did to its neighbors during the war. It's a sign of progress, even if Japan doesn't get much credit for it. There is a trace...
Although Lucas has unveiled an ambitious tax-cut proposal, Incumbent Democrat James Blanchard has ridden the state's economic resurgence to a 2-to-l lead. Blanchard boasts of cutting the state's unemployment in half and of erasing Michigan's $1.7 billion debt. He has won support from farm and business interests, moderate Republicans and the majority of blacks, who make up 12% of the state's electorate. The Governor has tried to handle the race issue carefully, realizing that some blacks support Lucas out of a sense of racial pride. "I can understand that feeling," says Blanchard...