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...party affiliation may help: the Republican vote has been growing rapidly in Georgia, and no Southern Democrat has won an open Senate seat since 1988. Still, if the polls are to be believed, Cleland could end the Democrats' losing streak. His much heralded biography would then have a new chapter, "The Senate Years...
...character named Paul Theroux moves chronologically, chapter by chapter, through a life that is identical in all external details to the biographical sketches familiar to author Paul Theroux's readers. First comes his stint as a Peace Corps volunteer in Africa in the mid-1960s, followed by a period in Singapore, where he teaches English and begins attracting attention as a promising young novelist. Then comes the long sojourn in London, where, as an American expatriate and the happily married father of two sons, he writes novels (The Family Arsenal, The Mosquito Coast) that firm up his reputation and livelihood...
When this chapter of the novel appeared in the New Yorker last March, transatlantic eyebrows were raised, particularly after it became known that the real Paul Theroux had once actually attended a dinner given for the Queen. As a stand-alone piece in the New Yorker appearing under the rather puzzling rubric "Fact and Fiction," Theroux's account provoked justifiable confusion. In the context of My Other Life, though, the episode seems entirely consistent with the mildly plausible and cumulatively bizarre contents of the rest of the novel...
Chestney said, however, she does not want or expect the Greek system to dominate the social life at Harvard. She said she does not think her chapter will ever surpass 100 members...
...although the organizations are not allowed to poster on campus, Doolittle said undergraduate interest in the chapter is growing...