It's not like I went looking for a summer romance. It just sort of happened. Dave was handsome, smart, and he was planning to be a lawyer. I couldn't help but compare him to Lenny. As charming and dynamic as Lenny was, he had quit school and always seemed to be getting into trouble. When Dave and I were together, everything was easy. No fights, no tears... At least, that's how it seemed when we were working together that summer. But then it was over and I was back in the city...and so was Lenny. The powerful feelings between us hadn't faded, and wasn't about to settle for a part-time...

Essays by twelve leading scholars give readers insight into the workings of politics in Communist China.

The history of the TLC from its origins in the 1920s to its demise in the 1950s.

Almost a half century ago, being in 1857, John Doyle Lee, a chief among that red brotherhood, the Danites, was ordered by Brigham Young and the leading counselors of the Mormon Church to take his men and murder a party of emigrants then on their way through Utah to California. The Mormon orders were to "kill all who can talk," and, in their carrying out, Lee and his Danites, with certain Indians whom he had recruited in the name of scalps and pillage, slaughtered over one hundred and twenty men, women, and children, and left their stripped bodies to the elements and the wolves. This wholesale...