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...rich, poor, homeless; black, white, Mexican--with actual facts (somebody might want to check them) about L.A.'s freeways and crime rates and history and such. It's reminiscent of one of Tom Wolfe's billion-footed beasts, but it's even more reminiscent of the socially conscious early 20th century naturalism of John Dos Passos and John Steinbeck. Fittingly, Frey uses a hard-boiled, under-punctuated, Hemingway type of nonstyle that seems to growl, I'm giving you the straight dope here, son. (A sample: "They lived in a small town in an eastern state it was nowhere anywhere...
...promote awareness about the plight and experience of the Palestinian people in 1948.” “Nakba”—the Arabic word for tragedy—is used by Palestinians to denote their displacement in the middle of the 20th century by the founders of the Israeli state. Yesterday’s event drew the attention of Harvard Students for Israel (HSI), the members of which stood at the entrance to the lecture hall distributing single sheets of paper with controversial Chomsky quotations on one side and an article attesting...
...that plays in Division I-AA football—a division in which a team beats one of the top squads in the country only once every blue moon, in which an Ancient Eight team hasn’t won the national championship since the first half of the 20th century...
...audacity of the Obama campaign was the belief that in a time of trouble - as opposed to the peace and prosperity of the late 20th century - the low-information politics of the past could be tossed aside in favor of a high-minded, if deliberately vague, appeal to the nation's need to finally address some huge problems. But that assumption hit a wall in Pennsylvania. Specifically, it hit a wall at the debate staged by ABC News in Philadelphia - viewed by an audience of 10 million, including a disproportionate number of Pennsylvanians - that will go down in history...
...closely by fellow sophomore Danny Mayer, who tied for 11th. Shuman shot 230 (72-78-79) and Mayer turned in 71-79-80. Shuman and Mayer were tied for eighth going into Sunday. Penn’s Michael Blodgett finished first individually with 218 (75-67-76). Tying for 20th, sophomore Peter Singh shot 235 (80-76-79). Junior captain Michael Shore posted a 237 (78-81-78) and junior John Christensen put in a 242 (79-79-84). “Ivies is always fun to play,” Mayer said. “There?...