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...larger play area. There is no shortage of toys for the dogs, who presently have what appears to be a stuffed striped bass or rainbow trout - it's hard to say from the pixelated live feed - among other playthings. (Around Halloween, a stuffed Jack-o-lantern made a brief cameo...
...Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile, the son of a truck driver (and boxer) who moved the family to Mexico City when Bolaño was still a boy. He dropped out of high school to pursue his obsession with poetry full-time. After a brief and not very successful return to Chile - he was imprisoned by Pinochet as a radical, then released when it turned out that he had gone to school with his guards - he fell in with a band of antiestablishment poets called the infrarealistas, who specialized in showing up at the readings of better...
...gratitude among the freshman class. Freshman proctor and panel member Harmony S. O’Rourke also noted that the blackout at the start of Opening Days laid the foundations for the bonding and overall cohesiveness of the class. Over meals in the historic and crowded Annenberg Hall, the brief snapshot of college life led both parents and students to reflect on the first eight weeks of the academic year. Siya Ngcobo ’12 said the weekend provided him with a “wake-up call for how fast everything is happening.” His father...
...little success. The 80s brought a more experimental flavor to Kottke’s music, as he incorporated an even wider variety of sounds into his acoustic tableau. In the early 1980s, after sustaining chronic injuries to his hands due to an aggressive playing style and taking a brief hiatus, Kottke reinvented his technique and returned to the guitar. Since then, his two most high-profile recordings have been collaborations with Phish bassist Mike Gordon—2002’s “Clone” and 2005’s “Sixty Six Steps...
...when new unemployment figures and auto maker losses revealed the depth of the country's economic woes, Obama was appropriately sober and brief, focusing most of his opening statement on his determination to pass a stimulus package and get the economy moving again. "It is not going to be quick and it is not going to be easy for us to dig ourselves out of the hole that we are in, but America is a strong and resilient country," he said in his opening statement. But the president-elect did seem in great spirits, joking with a small group...