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...Pelham, N.Y., mother of three and still an avowed Democrat, worries about the erosion of civil liberties but at the same time recognizes that it could protect her family. "I'm very torn," she admitted. "Before 9/11, I would not have been." Nancy Potter, a 52-year-old teacher in Murfreesboro, Tenn., did not vote for George Bush and still thinks he stole the election from Al Gore. But when it comes to what the Administration has done against terrorism, she admits, "I think everything they've done is necessary. I absolutely support them in this." Adds Terri Brill...
Norman Rush is something of an oddity in the world of American letters, a world that sometimes seems to be populated solely by wunderkinder and eminences grises. Born in 1933, Rush worked as a teacher and a rare-books dealer and did a stint with the Peace Corps in Africa before he finally published his first novel, Mating, in 1991. It promptly won the National Book Award. Rush then resumed his silence (and maintained his 1.000 batting average). Now, 12 years later, we have the remarkable Mortals (Knopf; 715 pages), which gives us the late-blooming Rush as challenging...
...sessions with a trainer two years ago helped Barbara Manring, 57, of Great Barrington, Mass., overcome her timidity in the gym. "I was never a cream puff, but I hadn't exercised in 10 years and wanted more muscle tone," says the former teacher. After nine months of five or more workouts a week, Manring saw huge gains in strength. Now she gets respectful glances from buff young body builders as she leg-presses 400 lbs. and knocks out 100 full-body push-ups. "I never could have done that when I was younger," she says. "It's wonderful...
...Peiqi), a poor man from the provinces, takes his son Xiaochun (Tang Yun), 13, a violin prodigy, to Beijing in hopes of promoting the boy's career. He's gifted, no doubt, but in big-city music competitions, a bribe decides the winner. Nevertheless, Xiaochun gets a good teacher--Jiang (Wang Zhiwen), a sympathetic bohemian with a Dickens-novel quota of pet cats--and befriends an effervescent girl-on-the-make named Lili (Chen Hong, who offscreen is Chen's wife...
Eventually, Xiaochun attracts the interest of a more renowned teacher, Professor Yu (played by the director), who will coax the boy toward the career he and his father have dreamed of. Like Eliza Doolittle with her dustman dad, Xiaochun risks estrangement from his father as Jiang and then Yu assume the job of nurturing the boy's talent. For Xiaochun, each small step up in class means a giant step from his village, his childhood and the man who raised him. A boy can have so many fathers. Finally, one is enough--but which one will Xiaochun choose? That decision...