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Gene labs deny the validity of such criticism. "Every man has the right to know whether he is the biological father of a child or not," says Victoria Koppenwallner, who owns a one-woman paternity-test company in Berlin, "without the expense of an official test." Men like Michael Lammers, who now has to pay a monthly maintenance allowance to a daughter who doesn't even want to see him, would agree...
...story is told in the form of a flashback, as discussed in Berlin in 2003 by the children of two of the main characters, who, by happenstance, bump into one another while they are both vacationing in the same spot. Over the course of the novel, the plot reveals itself in many different ways: it changes narrators, follows different characters, and even appears in the form of issues of The Bill Board, Ben’s school newspaper...
This method effectively gives the reader a full, three-dimensional view of the plot, characters and historical context. Nonetheless, it can be confusing, particularly in the beginning when one does not yet have a comprehensive grasp of who all the characters are. Additionally, although the flashback from Berlin in 2003 helps to set the scene and ties in rather well with some of the obscure details that appear in the bulk of the novel, the departure from and return to the present day serve as rather weak bookends for what is a very self-contained story. The exploits...
Alas, those who have looked around will doubtless have recognized the fallacy here: Harvard’s landscape is blotted by hideous concrete towers that would seem more at home in East Berlin (or, perhaps, B.U. East) than they do in this otherwise-Edenic corner of Cambridge. The very words “Mather House” should strike fear into aesthetes throughout the country. Speaking in 1984 on a proposed extension to the National Gallery in London, the Prince of Wales said that it would resemble “a monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved...
...ludicrous. The powder keg is not there but in the Middle East. And the fuse on that powder keg is already alight. The terrorists who stand in the way of achieving a peaceful settlement to the issue of a Palestinian homeland must be brought to heel. CHARLES H. EYPPER Berlin...