Like Charles Dickens, the Australian novelist Morris West died suddenly at his desk, with an unfinished manuscript before him. The date was 8 October 1999; then in his eighty-fourth year, West had published twenty-six novels and two plays. His works had...

A message from Karen M. Ristau, NCEA President I had a friend in high school whose family owned a moving company. Part of the company's name included the word "storage," which I understood referred to the temporary need to store household items before...

TORTOISE A Lazarus Taxon (Thrill Jockey) **** Though they've spent their 12-year career looking forward, Chicago's Tortoise will forever be tied to post-rock: a brief, if pivotal, movement that, as coined in 1994 by critic Simon Reynolds, employed "rock instrumentation...

Jerry FalwellLYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) _ The Rev. Jerry Falwell, the evangelist who used the power of television to transform the religious right into a mighty force in American politics, has died. He was 73.The founder of the Moral Majority was discovered without a pulse Tuesday...

Coming soon to the Supreme Court: a rare appearance by a black lawyer. More than a year has passed since a black lawyer in private practice stood at the lectern in the elegant courtroom and spoke the traditional opening line, "Mr. Chief Justice and may...