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...different characters, and then chooses to leave things in the stylistically most awkward of places: the defensive hands of the bored reader. Constance Barton is haunted by the fear of death through childbirth, pursued by visions of ghosts and demons coming to harm her 4-year-old daughter, Angelica. Blaming her husband’s malignant intentions, she turns to the advice of a neighborhood spiritualist. The ghost story is told first from the perspective of Constance, then of spiritualist (and proto-feminist) Anne Montague, then of Joseph Barton, father and husband, and finally of Angelica Barton herself, who turns...
...less and less time to spend with their children. When stress goes up for a father, it affects not only the quantity of time he spends with his children but the quality." Some, like a 35-year-old human-resources manager in Tokyo, who asked not to be named, blame unsympathetic employers. "At my old workplace, most of the people in my department didn't have children," he says. "I don't think they understood the importance. I was unable to take any holidays after the birth of my son." Others point to the old Asian culture of networking...
...their character. As a result, the Arab refugee population is largely middle class, with a glut of doctors, lawyers and other professionals. But as the number of newcomers swells, tensions are rising. Not many Kurds forget the years of repression from Iraq's Arab majority, and many now blame Arabs for rising home prices. While I was waiting to speak to the president of Salahaddin University in Erbil, which recently added around 200 Arab professors to its faculty, a visiting Kurdish archeologist offered his expert opinion on the subject: "From Muhammad until now, Arabs are rotten to the bone...
...first blush, you can't blame them. The idea sounds not a little corny. On Tuesday, April 24, Idol contestants will sing what Fuller calls "emotive, moving, aspirational, triumph-over-adversity songs." In between renditions of, say, Bridge over Troubled Water and Man in the Mirror, there will be clips of Simon Cowell and Ryan Seacrest's trip to Africa, Randy Jackson's trip to Louisiana and Paula Abdul's trip to Kentucky. When viewers call to vote for their favorites, sponsors will kick in some money for every vote cast...
...diving competition, with its male athletes taking nine out of 10 golds on offer and bagging several silvers and bronzes too. Their one failure came in the sport's blue-ribbon event: the 10-meter board competition. China's formidable sports machine knows that it only has itself to blame for that loss. But it was willing to lose a gold to enforce a rigid discipline on its prized athletes...