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CAUTION TO THE READERA PREFACE BY C. LEWIS WATKINS,BAKER-VALERIO PROFESSOR OF TH E CIVILIZATION AND LITERATURE OF ITALY AND RHETORICAL ORATIONPittsfleld Daily Reporter, "Community Notebook," September 15, 1989LEXINGTON BOY'S INSECT SCARE SPARKS "RENEWAL"Search teams safely recovered Kenneth...

w e are all writing the story of our life. We want to know what it's "about," what are its themes and which theme is on the rise. We demand of it something deeper, or richer, or more substantive. We want to know where we're headed-not to spoil our own ending by ruining the surprise, but we want to...

In Bulgaria, in 1934, on a muddy street in the river town of Vidin, Khristo Stoianev saw his brother kicked to death by fascist militia. His brother was fifteen, no more than a blameless fool with a big mouth, and in calmer days his foolishness would have been accommodated in the usual ways—a...