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That, of course, is Taylor’s bare-bones way of saying that he caught Trevelyan unprepared for the forecheck and stripped the puck from St. Lawrence’s most dangerous player...
...contrary, actually." Another flaw, say critics, is the reliance on confessions. In many cases, the perpetrators are the only living witnesses to their crimes. The promise of a lighter sentence could be an incentive to implicate others, sometimes falsely. And many of the accused admit only to the bare minimum, and incriminate only accomplices who are dead or have fled the country. "I've never heard anybody confessing to more than one murder," says Gabriel Gabiro, a reporter for the Hirondelle news agency, which specializes in human-rights issues. "You'd think nobody in Rwanda killed twice." Many who confessed...
That, of course, is Taylor’s bare-bones way of saying that he caught Trevelyan unprepared for the forecheck and stripped the puck from St. Lawrence’s most dangerous player...
...early, failed ambition to be a rock star. "My writing style is quite minimalist on the surface, with hints of conflict or tension tucked away," he says. "That's something I have in common with classic Japanese settings. It's like a typical, old-fashioned Japanese house; it seems bare, but open a cupboard and all kinds of weird things come tumbling out." Weird things, indeed. In Never Let Me Go, teachers at an English boarding school in the late 1960s constantly tell the children that they are "special." Only trouble is, "special" has a very special meaning at this...
...even the underage should give Bukowski a try—just be sure to get there before 8 p.m. on weekends. Bite into a burnt “Buck Burger” at a retro price ($1.69; $1.10 extra for fries), and let the red pleather diner booths and bare lightbulbs awaken your nostalgia. By day, you can catch “All My Children” and your other favorite soaps on the three televisions along with locals decked out in goth gear. A mural dedicated to poet Charles Bukowski—who wrote the script...