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Hossein, a young newspaper vendor, is a revolutionary.

Almost three times as many people, most of them in tropical countries of the Third World, die of preventable, curable diseases as die of AIDS.

Despite the rosy projections and numerical alchemy that proponents employ to push their cause, privatizing Social Security won’t build much wealth for women, and it will leave elderly women, part

In early May, as the snows melted along the Karakoram Range, Indian troops on routine border patrols discovered that three strategic salients–Dras, Kargil and Batalik–in the Indian states of Ja

William Rehnquist may be the most patient and unyielding radical ever to occupy high office in America.

“Why do you care so much?” said a white friend to me during a debate about suspect profiling. “Don’t take it so personally–the police aren’t after you in the black middle class.

A new bride returns from a romantic honeymoon and opens a locked door in the family home, only to discover the mutilated corpses of her husband’s six ex-wives.

If Webster Hubbell
Is out of trouble,
The end for Starr
Cannot be far.
We hope these guys
Live peaceful lives
With little fuss–

Legend has it that Potemkin, burdened by duties and melancholy, once neglected to order the packing up of one of his stage-set villages.

After the success of Infinite Jest in 1996, David Foster Wallace took a vacation from fiction and, perhaps, from fans’ expectations with A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again.

Early in Hannibal, Thomas Harris’s hungrily anticipated sequel to The Silence of the Lambs, an Italian chief investigator on the trail of Dr.

A few years ago, one of Lebanon’s giddier periodicals, suitably titled Prestige, published as its cover story an interview with a Lebanese celebrity.