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...grit and transcendence. Divided into four short stories rather than a single narrative, each chapter features Catherine Gore, a lanky, androgynous lesbian with a drug habit and a talent for observation and story telling. The first chapter typifies the book's consistently refreshing unconventionality. The story details Catherine's brief but obsessive love affair with Chloe, a beautiful, blonde male to female transsexual. They bond over a mutual disillusionment with their peers - lesbians involved in "unbelievably dull left-wing political activities" and the gay male "trend towards gym-cloned pretty boys." The characters of "How Loathsome" are the marginalized...
...Yankees suck, Jeter swallows” routine and set their sights on New York catcher Jorge Posada. Though I was tucked away in a back-alley garden restaurant, Red Sox Nation had targeted me, too, as its inebriated agents would on several other occasions during my brief foray into the Great White North...
...While the 10-minute balloon ascent may feel altogether too brief, the maximum altitude of 200 m offers a fresh perspective on how all the temples and waterways of the complex fit together. At ground level, it's not easy to appreciate the extent to which Angkor was fed by the waters of Tonle Sap, Cambodia's huge central lake, about 25 km away. Not even Henri Mouhot, the French adventurer who rediscovered the country's cultural shrine in 1859, got a view this good...
...chrome-tipped exhaust. Under the hood, there's a 160-h.p. four-cylinder engine. I didn't expect pulse-pumping pickup and didn't get it. But the five-speed manual I drove shifted smoothly in L.A. traffic. The steering was responsive, the ride firm, and during the brief spells in which I clocked more than 10 m.p.h. on the clogged freeway, the car never felt underpowered (actually, it performed admirably in forays above the speed limit...
...also points to a KSG initiative on state-building that will go forward after his departure as another major accomplishment during his brief time at the Belfer Center...