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Malik Hakim lay in his bed in the jail ward of Boston City Hospital. A young black woman sat in a chair beside him, her head and body bent forward as if to allow her to physically absorb what he was saying...
...punctuating his words with whichever hand he was not using to prop up his head. Finally, he stopped talking and leaned back against the pillows piled at the head of his bed. The woman bent further forward, kissed him on the cheek and then walked over to the jail ward's wire-mesh door. As a red headed state policeman negotiated the lock, the young woman looked back at the bed where Malik Hakim, torn tendons in both his legs, lay. Hakim touched his dark, long-fingered hands together, and inclined his head towards them and her with...
...guard was right. There was something regal about Hakim's presence. Even as he lay in a jail ward bed, a torn hospital night shirt hung loosely about him like a toga, his uncombed hair greying at the temples and behind his ears. Hakim exuded an easy hegemony. However, it was not the regality of a king at court, but of a condemned king held in the Tower...
...interview, Malik Hakim leaned back against the piled pillows on his bed in the jail ward. "You know the first thing I thought when I landed in here was that I had failed. You know, that I hadn't done half the things I had wanted to do, and that there wasn't going to be no second chance. Sometimes I think that was what must have been going through Malcolm's mind after they shot him. Then that little girl, you know, the one who was in here before you. She's just 16, man, but I watch...
SINCE 1901, when the Swedish Academy chose the first recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature and bypassed Leo Tolstoy, the awards have often been surrounded by controversy. There is still a furor over last year's pick, Soviet Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn, whose works (Cancer Ward; The First Circle) expose the authoritarianism of Soviet life. Fearing that he would not be allowed back into the U.S.S.R., he has not dared travel to Stockholm to accept the award; and the Swedish embassy, fearing an adverse reaction from its Soviet hosts, refuses to stage a public ceremony for him in Moscow...