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...corrupt regime in the aftermath of a political coup. Set in an unnamed country and told through alternating first-person narration, Dovey’s novel identifies its characters only by their relation to the deposed “President”—“His Barber,” “His Chef,” “His Portraitist”—and by pronominal slippage, their relations to the new “Commander.” These vignette-like accounts depict the violence latent in the everyday...
...Moses is survived by his wife, Mary S. Holland ’73; his children Laurence and William Holland, James Moses, Bruce Moses, and Paige Lewin; four grandchildren; his father, Henry C. Moses; his sisters, Catherine Barber and Margery Phillips; and his wife from a previous marriage, Jean Smith Moses...
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Actor Johnny Depp; dark leather trench (produced for the movie...
...recent book, “Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry is Medicating a Nation,” Yale psychiatrist Charles Barber argues that Americans have come to rely on psychiatric medications to solve even the most benign and normal of emotional ills. He isn’t the first to make this claim. Since the 1993 publication of Peter Kramer’s “Listening to Prozac”—which stated, deceptively, that Prozac could not only make depressed people feel better, but that it could make people feel “better than well...
...networks between family groups, writes Stephanie Coontz in Marriage, a History. Families exchanged daughters and sons for labor, land, goods and status. These matches were so important that, in almost every society, a community member eventually set up shop in setting up unions; in northern India, it was the barber's wife, the nayan. "Be a matchmaker once," goes the Chinese saying, "and you can eat for three years...