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...first great flowering of his career, in the 1950s and '60s, John Cheever was, to all appearances, the crown prince of normality. The wife and three children, the faithful retrievers, the rambling old house in Ossining, N.Y. - in all its outward signs, his life was commensurate with his role as the man who was, with John Updike, the esteemed chronicler of the postwar suburbs. But if you came to his fiction expecting sunlit scenes of American life, you were mistaken. Though his work was shot through with the beauty and abundance of the world, of suburban "nights where kings...
...lost the vote, Barak, the diminutive ex-general and decorated war hero, would likely have been driven out as party leader, his political career at an end. This way Barak stays in power, and Labor will get the ministries of defense, agriculture, industry, trade and welfare. But the cost has been high. One respected columnist, Ben Caspit in Maariv, wrote, "The Labor Party signed its own death certificate...
...debatable whether O'Neal, who commands a $20 million salary from the Suns and has earned more than $250 million during his NBA career, should be giving out his real-time location on the Internet. But it's clear that he isn't the only celebrity for whom Twitter has changed the relationship between object of adulation and adulator. (Read "Congress's New Love Affair with Twitter...
...this past weekend and one proved more at home than the rest. Junior co-captain Louis Caputo took advantage of a supportive atmosphere in his native “Show Me State” to outwrestle his seed and claim All-American honors for the second time in his career...
...Emily Cross, a 2008 Olympic silver medalist with Team USA, won 21 out of 24 matches to qualify for the semifinal in the foil division. Cross lost a gritty 8-7 match to eventual champion Doris Willette of Penn State to finish in third place and earn her third career All-American selection. Cross also represented the fourth Crimson fencer of the tournament to make an event final four, setting a new Harvard fencing record...