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...persistent voice in promoting the rights of assembly and expression antagonized the government; anti-state charges forced him into exile overseas in 1976 and again in 1991. During that time, he continued to write so that his views could drift back home, he says...
...face of it, My Last Movie Star (Random House; 349 pages) is a simple tale. Clementine James, a seasoned profile writer for Flame magazine, is asked to write a 5,000-word story on Allegra Coleman, but as the two begin drifting through the cool, dry spaces of California together, Allegra abruptly totals the 1956 Porsche they are in and disappears. Clementine, taken to the hospital, finds herself the celebrity now, as the last person to have seen the missing star alive. As she slips into a life where privacy is obsolete, she starts to be visited by actresses from...
...meet a glad-handing official for lunch in Pelaihari, Inul appears spent after a night of "drilling," as her dance has been termed by the Indonesian media. Yet one mention of her detractors is enough to energize her. "Write this down," she commands. "The MUI should realize that Indonesia is not a Muslim country, it's a democratic country." Inul, who says she prays daily, insists that her art doesn't clash with her Islamic beliefs and suspects the religious hierarchy castigates her because the real threats to Indonesia's fragile morality, particularly corrupt officials, are too dangerous to attack...
...significant number of Social Studies students write their theses on Latin American topics or on Latinos in the United States, I expect that we will be nominating students for this prize,” she said...
Knowing that this column may appear on the eve or morning of war makes it hard to write about anything else. So far I have deliberately avoided writing a war column because this war is so fundamentally not about language: either you are with us or against us, either you are pro-war or pro-terrorism, either you are a patriot or a threat to American security, either you are good or evil. Such a polarized black and white approach makes the job of a writer—whose native territory is the gray—far more difficult...