"Public officials of the judicial system of Los Angeles routinely use the acronym ‘N.H.I.’ to refer to any case that i…"

"It was early morning. There were mists over the hills and valleys of Hebron. Down in the square, Aunt Kate sat on the…"

"In the silence that followed, the bubble of the morning's celebrations was shattered and the fragments went spinning …"

"The sun reared up over Hebron like a wild horse. It streamed across the sky, tangled with the naked branches of trees…"

"Ann sat in the back of the cart, and, as they drove off, she waved to Aunt Kate. The old woman did not wave back. The…"

"In the square not even the ghost of a wind stirred the naked trees. Aware of the creeping death around them, the chil…"

"[He] heard her singing and knew that she had forgotten him already, that in the morning, if she remembered him, it wo…"

"...as he sat waiting, he took up a fragment of wood and carved idly, thinking of making a toy for the child. Then as …"

"The cheap and easy radicalism does not address the underlying requirement for a total transformation—who are we as Bl…"

"in this country we must begin to think about education as an initiation into a world full of symbols and descriptions…"