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...childhood, Swimming Across has the poignant clarity of a child too young to have illusions. What is, is--and is seen with wondering ruthlessness. The son of nonreligious Jews, Andris, whose father was a partner in a dairy business, first shows himself to the reader on his third birthday, Sept. 2, 1939, scooting in a new toy car along the promenade on the banks of the Danube. Grove does not mention that one day earlier, Hitler had invaded Poland...
...Forward slate, refused to debate Gilbert, of the Restore Respect party. Harper sent out a mailing disclosing that Gilbert was a scab in a 1989 movie; Gilbert was forced to send out an e-mail explaining why she was too busy to appear at SAG strike events last year (birthday parties, dying dog, nanny quitting, husband Bruce Boxleitner's knee surgery). Victorious Actors Moving Forward treasurer candidate Kent McCord, of Adam-12, said, "I have never seen an attempt to obliterate the truth in the manner the Melissa Gilbert campaign has." The election was seen by many as a referendum...
...first book scene introduces the audience to the sisters on the birthday of Irina (Furrow), the youngest sister. The event takes place a year to the day after the death of the sisters’ father. Despite the constant allusions to their father made by the oldest sister, Olga (Lerhman), and the depression of the middle sister, Masha (Thomas), Irina maintains an attitude of excitement that is a key contrast to her sisters’ dourness. In this scene, the audience is also introduced to their brother, Andrei (Daniel A. Cozzens ’03), and his off-beat fianc?...
FORGET ME NOT Where do old Web pages go to die? If they're lucky, the Internet Archive, a nonprofit project to preserve the history of the Web. The archive recently marked its fifth birthday by launching the Wayback Machine web.archive.org) Type any URL into this free service, and you can see what the page looked like in the old days (1996). The archive has already devoted a special collection to the Sept. 11 attacks...
...bother to make a memory of what you never thought you would have to remember. The towers had loomed protectively over hide-and-go-seek games, my first bike ride, the time Adele Kudish tripped over me running through the spray of an open fire hydrant at my 10th birthday party. On late nights, as I walked home from the subway station, I would always look up at the lights scattered through the towers and muse over who was staying late to work, and why, and what people were celebrating up in Windows on the World, which cast an unbroken...