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...brings me to the raison d?etre for this letter from Orlando. The last time I did one of these minor-key adventure series in this electronic space was last fall, when I embarked upon a mission to witness the epic Sox-Yanks playoff series from the stands, and write about the wild ride for Time.com. Some readers got a kick out of the ferociously biased account; some felt I was just another lame, pathetic loser. In any event, when I saw the kid in the Brady shirt and was reminded of our recent New England triumph on the gridiron...
...that most crosses want to defend; the noughts are itching for change and some are willing to kill and die for it. All 49 of Blackman's books before Noughts and Crosses have had a black kid as their hero, but until 2001 she had resisted publishers' pressure to write about racism. "As if that was the only thing I could really write about," says Blackman, a 42-year-old Londoner and former database manager at Reuters. "It used to drive me nuts." When she relented and decided to tackle it through slavery, "My black friends said...
...Questions For Bob Dole" [Jan. 26]: At the end of the interview, the retired Senate majority leader said he might write a book, and he added, "I probably won't run for anything again, so I can tell the truth now." He put his finger on just the thing that is turning off American voters. You can't believe anything a politician says, especially those running for higher office. Any one of them will say whatever is necessary to get elected. Dole merely gave credence to that idea. Adam H. Dorsch Arlington Heights...
That day changed me forever. I knew that if I could live through the war, I would write music about peace and the brotherhood of man. Before the war, I had studied music at the College of the Pacific, but now I wanted to learn how to be a composer, with the idea of writing oratorios and cantatas...
Before joining up, I had taken a lesson with the French composer Darius Milhaud. When I got home, I continued to study with him on the G.I. Bill at Mills College in Oakland, Calif. He knew I wanted to write oratorios and cantatas, but he also said I should not give up jazz. He said, "Jazz is the most American art form. It's too late for you to have a European classical background. But you'll do it on your...