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...idea of the triumph of one people being the tragedy of another is eloquently captured in Sandy Tolan's book, The Lemon Tree - essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the difficulty in resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Tolan chronicles the true story of Dalia Eshkenazi, whose family flees post-Holocaust Bulgaria in 1948 to live the Zionist dream of building a Jewish state in the Holy Land. The new Israeli government provides them with an abandoned Arab house in the town of Ramla, in which she grows up. One summer morning in 1967, she's sitting in the garden...
...this Aboriginal advocate and mother of two, and an even more fascinating story unfolds. Wright's great-grandfather was a Chinese market gardener who was introduced to her great-grandmother by the pastoralist Frank Hann. "The story goes that she and another little girl were found up a tree," says Wright, who has long speculated on how she came to be there and on the family's Chinese ancestry: "How do the spirits connect when people come from other countries?" It's a question she'll explore in her next novel, Rara Avis (In the Swan's Nest). Meanwhile, Wright...
...partisan liberal online activism was spurred by a strain of antiwar, anti-Bush fervor and frustration with congressional Democrats for not standing up to the President. Blogs like Daily Kos and MyDD grew rapidly. Today their combined readership (more than a million people weekly) dwarfs that of the dead-tree versions of established purveyors of liberal thought like the New Republic, which has a print circulation of about 62,000. The conservative Rightroots movement is only just getting started...
...wait until March? Celebrate being “Halfway to St. Patrick’s Day” at Oysterfest 2006, a 4-hour long, Irish-themed extravaganza starring live music from U2 cover band “The Joshua Tree,” pints of cold Guinness (duh), and the yum-tastic bivalve mollusks themselves...
...speaks, Sestak is serving as a jungle gym for his daughter Alexandra, 5, who is climbing all over him. And now Sestak starts telling a story about when Alex was in the hospital because she "had a little tree growing." Alex looks up at her father and interrupts: "Dad, it was a tumor." It was, in fact, a malignant brain tumor. After surgery and months of chemotherapy, the cancer is in remission. In the rush to define the 2006 campaign as a national political event that will send a crucial message-thumbs up or down on George W. Bush...