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...Early on in Shalimar the Clown a diplomat is stabbed to death by his chauffeur. It takes Rushdie the rest of this absorbing novel to explain why. Prowling restlessly backwards and forwards through the 20th century, he follows the principal players from country to country, through World War II and the struggle between Pakistan and India for control of the Edenic villages of Kashmir. Everywhere he takes us there is both love and war, in strange and terrifying combinations, painted in swaying, swirling, world-eating prose that annihilates the borders between East and West, love and hate, our private lives...
...pool. The Philippines, with Pangilinan’s help, was able to win the Games, earning a total of 291 medals. No stranger to international competition, Pangilinan also raced in the 100-meter and 200-meter breaststroke for the Philippines in the 2004 Olympic Games and picked up a 20th-place finish in the 200-meter event. —ABIGAIL M. BAIRD
...that an unabashed progressive can win the state,” Brown said, adding that his success in Ohio will further prove that “progressives everywhere can win office.” After describing what he called the “great progress” of the 20th century in terms of the creation of social security, collective bargaining rights, and healthcare reform, Brown reaffirmed his support of “working families” and “regular people.” He decried the current administration and Congress as undoing much of this progress...
...upset that their history is being played out by Chinese actors, and many Chinese are enraged because their movie stars are playing sympathetic characters in a film about a country that was, let’s be honest, more than a bit naughty towards China in the early 20th century. Who wins out? The director—Rob Marshall, a white guy from Wisconsin. “Something’s rotten in the State of that Tent Over There…is that two gay cowboys making out?”—“Brokeback Mountain?...
...differences among European countries helps enliven the analysis. Critics can argue against his conclusion that "the twenty-first century might yet belong to Europe," but readers will find plenty of credible reasons for that view in his trenchant dissection of the second half of the 20th. Judt takes Europe from its hour of deepest need after the war to today's sometimes complacent prosperity in telling detail. At the signing of the treaty that launched nato in 1949, he notices, the band played "I Got Plenty of Nothing" - roughly what the new alliance offered in terms of boots...