In his superb biography, Benjamin Moser has done an amazing amount of research on the life of Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector, particularly on how powerfully her Jewish background influenced her fiction, so that the enigmatic writer emerges as a complete yet complex figure.
China and Indonesia have hailed the Copenhagen UN climate summit outcome, despite its cool reception from aid agencies and campaigners. President Obama defended the accord he helped broker with China and other main powers. The non-binding pact, called the Copenhagen Accord, was not adopted by consensus at the UN climate summit in Denmark.
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The number one slot in Britain’s Christmas top forty is traditionally a soft and fluffy, family-friendly place. In recent years its been dominated by winners of British reality TV show ‘The X-Factor’. This year, a music fan decided he was “a bit bored with that” and organized a Facebook campaign which succeeded in consigning this year’s X-Factor winner to the number two slot. And the tune he urged his supporters to download? A 17-year old track by American rockers Rage Against the Machine. Download MP3
