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...reader will realize the twist at the end of “The Soul Thief.” The reader realizes that Nathanial has been duped at the same time that the character does and that it must be more painful for Nathanial than it is for us. (To avoid spoiling the book I will not disclose what this trick may be but it completely alters Nathanial’s life and the reading experience). It’s hard to imagine that, as the reader flips through the pages of “The Soul Thief” once...
...feels a little off-balance. The show needs to decide whether it wants to establish a tone of realism or surrealism, and work from there. Personally, I vote surrealism. It’s obvious that the creators of “Breaking Bad” are trying to avoid striking the same tone as “Weeds,” but the plotlines need to be as flip as those of “Weeds” for the show to have a little bit of color. A little more comedy would also help with all the bodies this...
...Barack Obama basks in comparisons to J.F.K., but this is one he'd rather avoid. In the run-up to what could be the decisive contests for the Democratic nomination, Obama's relatively light political résumé - eight years as an Illinois legislator and three years in the U.S. Senate - continues to be the focus of his rivals' attacks. Hillary Clinton advertises her seven years in the Senate and two terms as First Lady, saying "I am ready to lead on Day One." And the message has gotten through: by clear margins, voters rate her as the more...
...Immediately afterwards, journalists, trans theorists and feminists jumped on the incident, and the details emerged under the eyes of a morbidly fascinated public. Teena was often erroneously referred to a lesbian, who had taken on a male identity to avoid the stigma of dating women as a female. Perhaps the most striking aspect of the reaction was how, in the wake of a murder prompted by the urge to punish the transgression of gender roles, no one could resist the urge to somehow fit Teena into some kind of explainable category...
...relevant pharmaceutical-company trials, both published and unpublished, before it will approve a drug. Under the Freedom of Information Act, the researchers writing in PLoS Medicine were recently able to obtain those FDA records of industry-sponsored clinical trials. They yield data, they believe, that lets them avoid a bias that often plagues reviews of previous research: the tendency for conclusive positive results to be published, sometimes more than once, and thus over-represented, while mediocre results can be ignored or even swept under...