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...Bench the Bureaucrats! Thanks to Alex Perry for his essay "An Eternally Faltering Flame," about how India performs badly at the Olympic Games [Aug. 23]. It couldn't be more timely. Innumerable Olympics have come and gone, but India remains the same as ever, with a poor showing at winning medals. The important thing is not to win, however, but to take part. The essential thing is not to win but to compete well. Jagdeep Singh Jakarta...
...Alex Blankfein ’08, a New Yorker who read the New York Times magazine cover story on Summers last August, said that he had heard the president was “doing good things for Harvard” but was “known to be a little arrogant...
...everyone who watches us is stupid." Headlines in the National Enquirer report that Ken and his posse were asked to leave the UCLA library after refusing to shush. Becomes butt of criticism when he starts trash talking rivals. "Who cares?," Ken comments. "Right now I'm bigger than Alex." Ratings plateau...
...democrats had the white-hat issue, but they also provided the campaign's biggest pratfalls. Candidate Alex Ho was last month allegedly caught with a prostitute on the mainland, which led several democrats to accuse Beijing of orchestrating a dirty-tricks campaign against their camp, though that has not been proved. The scandals have been noticed. "People are asking us: 'Why should we vote for you if you can't keep your pants on,'" mourns Fred Li, Ho's running mate...
Other chapters show Catherine joined by her friends Nick, the defensively macho user/dealer, and Alex, the cute junkie rent boy, as they shoot up, go to clubs and wrestle with the complications of a world where truth blends with fiction and fantasy with reality. At one point Alex flirts with a boy who turns out to be a girl but who says she isn't. Who knows the truth? But in the end, suggest the book, does it matter? Even the illustrations by Ted Naifeh, using an unusual palette of black, gray and bronze, strike a harmonic discord between...