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With ten novels published by the time she was thirty-seven, Jodi Picoult ranks among the more prolific and ambitious young American writers. She has been characterized by critics as a women's fiction author; she contests this label, however, citing her p...

Byline: Jennifer Harper, THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Plains truth "Shalom" may not be forthcoming down in Georgia: Former President Jimmy Carter has lashed out at the Simon Wiesenthal Center for compiling a 25,000-signature petition against his new book about the Israeli-Palestinian...

Velzquez Manet, no mean painter himself, was in no doubt when it came to the question of who was the best of all: Diego Rodriguez da Silva y Velzquez (1599-1660). Manet visited Madrid in 1865 and wrote to his friend Baudelaire, in a...

It has been over 45 years since John F. Kennedy campaigned against Richard Nixon, an inveterate anticommunist with impressive foreign-policy credentials, on the “missile gap.” Contending that the Eisenhower administration had left America vulnerable to Soviet military expansion and that new leadership was needed to...

A coalition of human rights groups has drawn up a list of 39 terror suspects it believes are being secretly imprisoned by U.S. authorities and published their names in a report released Thursday.Information about the so-called "ghost detainees" was gleaned from interviews with former prisoners...