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...girlie-men.” But with last week’s announcements that General Motors lost $8.6 billion in 2005, that the radical terrorist group Hamas won a majority of seats in the democratically elected Palestinian government, and that Iran will continue its march towards a nuclear bomb, America must come to the realization that its future is not inherently rosy...
...began getting death threats and abusive phone calls. One night, while Martin was at a mass rally, I was at home with a friend and our first child, two-month-old Yolanda, when a bomb hit our front porch and exploded," Coretta recalled. Later in the book she wrote, "Martin was now a hero to America's black people. Shortly after the [Montgomery bus boycott], TIME magazine ran a cover story on Martin, calling him 'the scholarly Negro Baptist minister who in little more than a year has risen from nowhere to become one of the nation's remarkable leaders...
...tell you about ..." So begin the e-mail missives of Hiroshi Sakamoto, the septuagenarian survivor of the atomic bomb in Nagasaki, whose love of haiku poetry is later parlayed into an appreciation of all things modern. In Gail Jones' seductive new novel, his captive audience is young Australian Alice Black, who is researching her book, The Poetics of Modernity. And over the course of Dreams of Speaking (Vintage; 214 pages), a succession of machines are summoned, from the Xerox copier to the neon tube, to glow in the novel's velvety darkness. Here the things which bring people together also...
...other end of the modernist spectrum is the bomb, and when Alice flies to Japan to meet up with her mentor, she is forced to confront its legacy. Visiting the Atomic Bomb Museum in Nagasaki, she is stopped in her tracks not by the wall clock frozen forever at 11:02 a.m. on Aug. 9, 1945, or the array of appalling statistics (73,884 dead), but a single written testimonial which makes time cease for her: "From the window I saw my mother in the garden, picking aubergines for our lunch. She burst into flames." Jones' novel works in much...
...hire someone to deal with the Harvard brand, Dartboard wondered if Harvard had read Dartboard’s mind. After seeing a New York Times article on cuteness and its impact on humans a few weeks ago, Dartboard thought the University might takes some cues to make the H-bomb (the term, not the magazine) even more appealing. Dartboard wouldn’t be surprised if faculty profiles were replaced with baby pictures or if University President Lawrence H. Summers showed up at his next public appearance in a fluffy, fuzzy panda costume. Dartboard thinks that it is hard...