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...fashioned tale of unrequited love. Kemal, a successful middle-aged Turkish businessman, walks into a boutique to buy a handbag for his fiancée and is immediately smitten with an 18-year-old shopgirl named Füsun, who happens to be a distant relative of his. Their affair??initially, a casual one—takes on a special gravity; despite its European affectations, 1970s Istanbul remains deeply wary of women who have sex before marriage. The two eventually do consummate their relationship, however, and the first few chapters of the book are devoted to surprisingly graphic...
...after Henry Louis Gates, Jr. was arrested there, sparking a national debate about race in America. Though the discourse about the arrest, its aftermath, and the realities of race problems in the country spread far and wide, Obama thought that a simple gesture might soothe the ire of the affair??an invitation to relax over a beer...
...campaign was a low-key affair??voter turnout dropped to under 14 percent—and Connolly drew fire for his campaign tactics after he distributed two anonymous flyers that attacked incumbent City Councilor Stephen J. Murphy...
...writing to announce my resignation as Yale Daily News football reporter, a position I have held the past three seasons. What started off as a passionate love affair??oh, the excitement of covering an ’05 team that threw the ball 368 times and played three dramatic overtimes against Harvard!—has fizzled into an unending string of identical, fundamentally sound victories, two years’ worth of Ivy League dominance that almost makes me long for the days of Ryan Fitzpatrick...
...Britons duped by Alan Conway, a man who spent much of the 1990s pretending to be Stanley Kubrick. The tagline is more apt, however, as a warning for the film. Essentially plotless, “Color Me Kubrick”—a fictionalized account of the Conway affair??is little more than a showcase for John Malkovich (as Conway) and a stockpile of in-jokes for admirers of the late director, best known for “A Clockwork Orange” and “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Such inside jokes...