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...Things They Carried returns O'Brien to Viet Nam through a series of sketches and stories that can be loosely read as an impressionistic novel about a man's need to attach human faces to his grief. The narrator, like the author, is a 43-year-old writer named Tim. O'Brien camouflages autobiography with fiction but is not shy about personalizing his intentions. "I want you to feel what I felt," he tells the reader. "I want you to know why a story- truth is truer sometimes than a happening-truth...
...estimate they lost 26 million people in their Great Patriotic War against the Nazis, have been the most vehement. If they were able, the Soviets would prevent unification altogether. That is impossible in view of Gorbachev's myriad problems, so they have tried to slow the process and attach conditions. When the "four" join the negotiations of the "two" in a few weeks, Moscow is expected to continue to argue for neutralization...
While some observers said in interviews yesterday that an immediate announcement of another nomination would be unwise because a second-choice stigma might attach itself to prospective candidates, others said MIT's stature as a university would still attract many distinguished candidates...
...sneers are turning to cheers. Among the group's sensible recommendations: offering parenting classes to high school students, requiring prospective teachers to take courses in self-esteem, and establishing peer support groups for people on welfare. Most important, the report urges changes in the juvenile-justice system to "attach a reasonable sanction to every criminal act, no matter how minor...
...like George Lucas' film, The Bear works not because it is technically expert but because of the connections it makes with primal emotions. We form an instant attachment to a near helpless creature whose mother is killed by falling rocks. Nor can we entirely avoid anthropomorphizing the cub's attempts to survive on his own or to attach himself to a full-grown male as a protector-mentor. He is such a vulnerable little guy, infinitely curious and dangerously, comically distractible -- whether by a passing butterfly or the moon's reflection in a pond...