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Jhumpa Lahiri's stories reveal their intentions with a stately slowness that is starting to seem distinctly 20th century. Her writing is completely free of humor or cleverness. It's almost totally devoid of narrative suspense. In the title story of her new collection, UNACCUSTOMED EARTH (Knopf; 333 pages), a widowed man comes to visit his daughter; their family is Indian, but she married an American. Will the father move in with them? Will he tell his daughter that he has a new lover? Lahiri (who won a Pulitzer for Interpreter of Maladies) gives us nearly 60 pages of precisely...
...Illinois' Lake Forest College and stayed on to teach acting. From 1943 to 1946 he appeared in five Broadway plays, none lasting as long as four months, before coming to Hollywood. Director Henry Hathaway thought the actor too clean-cut to play Udo, but Darryl Zanuck, the boss of 20th Century-Fox, detected psychological turbulence beneath Widmark's stark, chiseled features, and the role was his, for life. It earned him the sobriquet "the face of film noir" and his only Oscar nomination...
...after drawing a penalty just over four minutes into the first period, when Harvard took advantage of the power play opportunity to take 1-0 lead. Junior defenseman Katie Vaughn needled a slapshot through traffic from the blueline, which junior forward Jenny Brine deflected into the net for her 20th goal of the season.Vaillancourt, the Crimson’s leading scorer and a Patty Kazmaier Award finalist, almost doubled Harvard’s lead on a shorthanded opportunity when she stole the puck in the neutral zone and found herself on a breakaway, but a Badgers defenseman caught up with...
...both “the history of the current tobacco epidemic,” as well as “some strategies for addressing it.” According to Brandt, the World Health Organization estimates that about 100 million people worldwide died of tobacco related causes in the 20th century and that 1 billion will die in the 21st century. “This is a sobering statistic given that we have learned so much during the course of the last century about the harms of smoking,” Brandt said. The Bancroft Prizes were established at Columbia...
...celebrating something," says Raymond Clothey, Professor Emeritus of Religious studies at the University of Pittsburgh. "My goodness," says Delton Krueger, owner of www.interfaithcalendar.org, who follows "14 major religions and six others." He counts 20 holidays altogether (including some religious double-dips, like Maundy Thursday and Good Friday) between the 20th (which is also quite crowded) and the 21st. He marvels: "There is no other time in 2008 when there is this kind of concentration...