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...scale of the violence, in part because they have little ability to stop it and in part because they don't want to be put in the position of protecting unsavory characters. "The body count on these killings," the official says, "is a lot higher than anyone wants to admit...
...footnote to literary history into a tragedy of wasted promise. Shloss gives us a James Joyce we have never seen before, a portrait that encompasses both the great writer who subordinated everyone around him to the service of his art and the desperate, doting father who could never quite admit that his daughter was insane. The fragments of Lucia's voice that survive come to us freighted with an almost unbearable sadness. Once, when her mother asked if Joyce should visit her in the sanatorium, Lucia said, "Tell him I am a crossword puzzle, and if he does not mind...
...stories is fascinating all the same. In their different ways, both were moralists and proselytizers. Gauguin saw his paintings as pamphlets. His sensual Tahitians and Maori gods, his untamed yellows and greens were ripostes to the attenuated spiritual powers of Europe. His grandmother, meanwhile, was eventually compelled to admit the importance of sex for human happiness, despite her attachment to higher goals. And both were constantly embroiled in fights with the police, clergy and courts...
...running Chrysler. There's more to it than semantics: slating the deal as a merger bypasses the need to pay shareholder premiums, as would happen in a takeover. The spotlight will fall on DaimlerChrysler chairman Jürgen Schrempp, who in an October 2000 Financial Times interview appeared to admit Chrysler was destined to be a mere division; he insists his words were taken out of context. But he may be vulnerable; DaimlerChrysler settled a similar suit in August, coughing up $300 million for investors. Plus Ca Change Caving in to German pressure, E.U. ministers reached a compromise deal...
Harvard players will admit their record isn’t what they expected it would be at this point of the season. Now the Crimson will have to prove its mettle under historically unfriendly circumstances...