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When The Dew Breaker (Knopf; 244 pages), Edwidge Danticat's book of linked stories, begins, a young artist born in Brooklyn, N.Y.--Haitian, though she's never been to Haiti--learns from her father how he acquired the scar on his cheek he brought back from prison. He wasn't one of those receiving punishments, he tells his already unsettled daughter; he was one inflicting them. His sense of guilt is one reason he gave her the name "Ka," after the good angel of ancient Egyptian mythology. It's also why he gets her to read The Book...
...souls--seems to offer a formidable prospect for a novelist: What fiction can possibly stand up to such charged reality? Danticat, though, only 35 and already the author of three acclaimed works of fiction on her ill-starred home and one work of nonfiction, is undaunted. In The Dew Breaker she brings together myriad perspectives on the central torturer into a kind of mosaic. "It's a puzzle," as a teenage killer in one story says, "but a weird-ass kind of puzzle." A stained-glass window, he might be saying, catches a saint from the other world; a jigsaw...
...children, marrying a 70-year-old pretty much ends the discussion. Paul Falzone, CEO of dating services the Right One and Together, had to call off a five-year relationship with an older woman over this issue. "If you want children, [that's] going to be a deal breaker. I had to walk, and it wasn't because we didn't get along, but [children were] my no. 1 priority," he says...
Smith scored the first Crimson goal at the most opportune time; it was an ice-breaker when the team was trailing 4-0 near the midpoint mark in the second period, a goal that helped change the momentum of the game and revive Harvard’s flagging confidence...
...director. "Your interview and ability to match up your experience and personal qualities with the company is absolutely essential," she continues. And if you do make it to the offer table, try to keep your expectations in the post-Enron world. The compensation package is the No. 1 deal breaker. Here are a few other resume faux pas, and the percentage of recruiters who label each the "most common mistake...