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...restless intellect and you can only channel so much of that into legal work, and he has found a terrific secondary outlet for it,” says George Andreou ’87, Begley’s editor at Alfred A. Knopf. “I don’t have a vision of Louis snoozing in a hammock on Memorial Day weekend...
...form of acknowledging potential criticisms before the reader even thinks of them. And Wallace frequently seems to wonder whether his or any art is just a foolish attempt at uniqueness in a world where we're all fundamentally the same. His final story in the collection, The Suffering Channel, is the slightly drawn-out tale of an artist whose work is his incredibly well-crafted feces. The artist is eventually forced by his fame-seeking wife to create his works on live television. While it may seem whiny and self-flagellating of Wallace to depict art as carny detritus...
...widow of Chechen separatist Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, killed in Qatar last February, allegedly by two Russian agents now on trial in Doha . NTV ordered Parfyonov not to rebroadcast the segment. Parfyonov complied, but daily newspaper Kommersant ran both the interview and NTV's written order to kill it. The channel didn't hesitate to cancel the show. "Parfyonov has had it coming," Andrei Yegorshev, host of Obozrevatel, NTV's weekly media-review program, told TIME. "He's long been nasty to Putin personally, setting all of us up." Parfyonov wasn't the only journalist to feel the heat. Federal Protection Service...
...shell hit me in my left cheek. It felt like being hit with a baseball bat, only the results were much worse. My upper jaw was shattered; the left cheek was blown open. My upper lip was cut in half. I washed my face out in the cold, dirty Channel water and managed somehow not to pass out. I got rid of most of my equipment. Here I was happy that I did not wear the invasion jacket. I wore a regular Army zippered field jacket, with a Star of David drawn on the back and THE BRONX, NEW YORK...
Sources: U.S. Army in World War II, European Theater of Operations: Cross-Channel Attack, by Orlando Ward; The Penguin Atlas of D-Day and the Normandy Campaign, by John Man; D-Day Gliders, by Philippe Esvelin; D-Day 1944, Omaha Beach, by Steven J. Zaloga