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...each of his contracts. "I had treated my gratuities as pocket money, and had continued to blow most of them," he writes. "'Live for the moment' had been my motto, and the moments had been many and memorable." Thus, at the end of it all, Moss is broke and living, astonishingly, among the masses in a blue-collar housing estate, dependent for a time on handouts from friends, of which he deservedly has many (the abandoned boy that Moss sheltered decades ago, now married and middle class, returns to make his old benefactor a gift of almost...
...seen the power of such sentiments myself. When I was a high school exchange student in 1972, I had a rollicking argument with a train compartment full of East German teenagers about "imperialist America." But when I gave one of the girls a John F. Kennedy half-dollar, she broke into tears and gave me a big kiss. How many European teenagers today would feel that way about any American President? For Europeans to have less need of the U.S. is an inevitable fruit of cold war victory. But Judt argues that things are worse than that. Bush, he says...
CHICKEN WITH PLUMSMARJANE SATRAPIThe author of the Persepolis books continues to plumb her family history in Iran for fascinating stories. This one focuses on her great-uncle, a celebrated musician who, family lore says, decided to lie down and die after his wife broke his instrument, a tar, over her knee. Satrapi chronicles the eight remaining days of his life as he converses with his wife, his children, his friends and eventually the angel of death. Satrapi's simple black-and-white drawing style, combined with the fantastical elements of her narrative, turns Chicken with Plums into a great bedtime...
...Crimson held onto a 3-2 lead. The advantage would be short-lived however, as errors committed by Harvard undermined it. “We’re at the point where our mistakes cost us goals,” Farrar said. The Terrier offense capitalized on those and broke away on a 4-0 run, closing the half at 6-3. After the half, Harvard struck first but never brought the difference within one goal as Saint Francis remained in control for the remainder of the game. “We had our chances,” Farrar said...
...first half rapidly turned into a rout, as the Crimson found itself unable to stop the speedy Rams forwards, who scored thrice more before the half. “After they scored the first goal and then the second goal right away, we stopped communicating and kind of broke down as a team,” Odorczyk said. With the defense in disarray, Rams forwards found consistent scoring opportunities by creating one-on-one matchups with freshman goalie Lauren Mann. Trailing 5-0 at halftime, Harvard came out in the second half playing with nothing to lose and found...