certain areas were definitely favoured by one ethnicity or another. The Belvedere area is predominantly Indian, while the Greenwood and Hillside areas have large mansions inhabited mostly by whites or black politicians. In one of the upscale shopping ...
Before his assassination in 1961, Rafael Trujillo, the absolute dictator of the Dominican Republic, had been in a quarrel with the Roman Catholic Church. At one point in his historical novel, The Feast of the Goat, Mario Vargas Llosa, a Nobel Literature Prize Laureate from Peru, has one of...
The recent bookBattle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, by Yale law professor Amy Chua, has provoked a firestorm of controversy and discussion, much to the publisher’s glee, no doubt. (See Ayelet Waldman,In Defense of the Guilty, Ambivalent, Preoccupied Western Mom; Ann Hulbert,Hear the Tiger Moth...