Décès de l?écrivain italien Oriana Fallaci à l?âge de 76 ans.

La journaliste et écrivain italienne Oriana Fallaci, dont les interviews et les prises de position provocatrices avaient fait la réputation avant sa transformation en pasionaria anti-Islam, est morte des suites d?un cancer dans une clinique privée de Florence où elle était hospitalisée depuis plusieurs jours. Elle était âgée de 76 ans. Vivant ces dernières années quasiment en recluse à New York, Oriana Fallaci était revenue dans sa ville natale il y a quelques jours, son état ayant empiré. Elle aura parlé publiquement de sa bataille contre le cancer, qu?elle surnommait ?l?alien?. Ancienne résistante et correspondante de guerre, Fallaci avait au cours de sa longue carrière journalistique acquis la réputation de mener des interviews sans compromission avec les grands de ce monde, tels l?ancien secrétaire d?Etat américain Henry Kissinger, le chef de la révolution iranienne l?ayatollah Khomeini ou encore le président de l?Autorité palestinienne aujourd?hui décédé Yasser Arafat.

The black view of Clinton?s presidency

Bill Clinton, once dubbed the nation?s first ?black president,? is the focus of a book chronicling nearly 100 black Americans? thoughts on the 42nd president Clinton celebrated the release of his former diarist Janis Kearney?s book, Conversations: William Jefferson Clinton, From Hope to Harlem, as an unprecedented look at his eight years in office. ?I found it fascinating what some people had to say when they didn?t agree with me,? Clinton said at a recent reception for the book at his presidential library in downtown Little Rock. ?This is a really important book and it gives a voice to all kinds of African Americans.? ?I don?t know how Janis found some of these people and got them to say the things that they did,? Clinton said. ?They?re all stories of people who basically believe we can do better and have spent their lives trying to do better and help us all.? Kearney, who served nearly six years as Clinton?s White House diarist, said she decided to focus on what other blacks thought of Clinton because she didn?t think she could be objective about the former president. Nobel laureate Toni Morrison has called Clinton ?the nation?s first black president,? because blacks played a large role in Clinton?s election and tenure in office.