Does this sound like a discussion at your book club?"I liked the book a lot."Read more:
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(By John David Smith) In his eloquent, insightful "The Making of African America," University of Maryland historian Ira Berlin broadens the focus of his longtime slavery studies by redefining the contours of African-American history. He argues that America's black past comprised a series of four great migrations over four centuries, each transforming then retransforming what he terms "African America."The first and second migrations were involuntary. In the 17th century, Europeans forced Africans to mainland North America where, by the late 18th century, they had established rich cultural institutions including African-inspired churches.Read more:
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(By Darren Sexto, Kansas City Star) The finest expatriate novels are less about escape than the embrace of a new homeland, no matter how brief the stopover."This is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy," concludes Ernest Hemingway in his novel-with-real-people "A Moveable Feast." In "Prague," Arthur Phillips dropped Americans into end-of-last-century Budapest and put them to work finding themselves through an appreciation of the exotic.Read more:
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(By Steven Brown,
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) Scott Provancher's first Arts & Science Council campaign is going down to the wire. A few days ago, with a little more than a week left, the donations totaled $5.5 million. The goal: $7.3 million."I was on the phone this afternoon getting a few more pledges," ASC president Provancher says a few hours after announcing that tally.Read more:
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Bob, now 62, and Linda, now 61, dated in college - then spent 41 years thinking about each other. Linda tells the story:The pearl ring: I met Bob at a square dance in 1967, and we dated during our junior year at Trenton State College in New Jersey. On Valentine's Day, Bob gave me a pearl ring and said, "The next ring I give you will be an engagement ring." But the relationship ended that spring when Bob decided to go back with his high school sweetheart. I was so hurt, I threw that pearl ring out the car window.Read more:
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Criticism would be a simpler business if a great artist was never a rapist, and a rapist was never a great artist.But there's always Roman Polanski.Read more:
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