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...filmmaking days are overshadowed by her enthusiasm for her new book. “Atlas of Unknowns”, which will be released by Alfred A. Knopf on April 21, tells the story of two sisters in Kerala, India. In the novel, the younger sister makes her way to America as a student while the older is left behind. Inspired by a trip to her father’s village, Kumarakom, in 2006, “Atlas of Unknowns” is James’s first novel. Karen Russell, who attended Columbia’s MFA program with James...
Sancho Panza: America doesn't read. The situation is depressing enough to warrant any and all measures--including sacrificing the dog's name to the literary gods. Plus, B.O. needs a faithful companion to help his god-like boss tilt at windmills the financial system...
...lack of confidence in their ability to hit the target or flee if detected. Those shortcomings could be greatly reduced by the new longer-range rifle. How much longer range? "Specific system performance objectives (e.g., range, accuracy and target speed) are classified," the solicitation said. (See pictures of America's gun culture...
...knuckled nuclear face-off - the Cuban Missile Crisis - that ended only when Nikita Khrushchev accepted Kennedy's secret proposal to remove U.S. missiles in Turkey in exchange for the de-arming of Cuba. The Soviet missiles were gone within six months, but it would take a long time for America to forgive the nation that allowed them to be placed so close to the American mainland. (Read about the lessons learned from the Cuban Missile Crisis...
...nation. Yet according to the random sampling done every few years by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test, a mere 18% of the state's fourth-graders were proficient, making them the worst in the nation. Even in Lake Wobegon that doesn't happen. Only in America. The Thomas B. Fordham Institute, led by reformer Chester Finn Jr., has been analyzing state standards for more than a decade and concludes, "Two-thirds of U.S. children attend schools in states with mediocre standards or worse...