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...clothes, and knit half a scarf—all in the hopes of eradicating the Christmas-afternoon feeling that has been haunting me since 5 o’clock Tuesday. It hasn’t worked. I can still feel Byron, poor man, unhouseled and perching on my bookshelf. And so I try to exorcise him with anecdotes...
Take a firm grasp of the bookcases’ metal sides. Do it standing, with entry from behind. Keep your thrusts to a minimum. Your lover and the bookshelf will appreciate...
...interests,” Hyman said in an interview in his tidy office last November, reclining in an armchair with one foot on the glass table in front of him, his cell phone on one hip and a PDA on the other. Pictures of his three children decorate his bookshelf...
...sham spirituality and chaos. He did this for more than 30 years, and when the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks took place and overnight it became important to know something about countries like Iran and Pakistan, intellectuals in America and Britain were grateful that Naipaul had already filled a whole bookshelf with essays on those places. They discovered that he had seen the tension between Islam and the West earlier and more intensely than any of them had. Reviewers praised his journalism for being "prophetic." In awarding him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001, the Swedish Academy drew special attention...
Jaroslav Kubera, the 56-year-old chain-smoking mayor of the Czech spa town of Teplice, is a man who likes to live and let live. A bookshelf in his office, for instance, bears a SMOKING PERMITTED sign. But these days a dispute pitting Arab investors against local people is making him smoke even more than usual. Kubera is in a tight spot. On one side are residents trying to stop a hotel and mosque from being built in the ancient resort town (pop. 53,000); on the other, private backers of the project who aim to invest...