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...lost in the mail," he says. However, persistence paid off. In 1988, the London-based writers' association International pen accepted Kurkov as a member on the strength of his unpublished manuscripts. Then, in 1999, Death and the Penguin was picked up by a Swiss publisher, and began its slow climb onto best-seller lists in Switzerland and Britain. At first, some Ukrainians refused to consider Kurkov a Ukrainian writer because he wrote in Russian. At the same time, his criticism of Putin infuriated Russian nationalists. It was only last year that a St. Petersburg-based firm cautiously resumed publishing Kurkov...
...want an indication of just how bad the outbreak of drug deaths has gotten in and around Chicago lately, just climb into one of the city's ambulances, which are now stocked with four times the usual amount of antidotes to handle such overdoses - if they get there in time. "I never remember another outbreak of overdoses [like what] we have had in recent months," says Chicago Police Superintendent Phil Cline. "Over one weekend, we had 24. More than 60 fatalities, and more than 700 overdoses. Even in the crack years, I've never seen it with the same deadly...
...Harvard students aware of what was transpiring broke into wild celebration. The thieves raced through the end zone and to the stairwell leading into the Harvard student section—and immortality—when disaster struck. Handsome Dan’s legs were too short to climb the steps, and, at 70 snarling, drooling, squirming pounds, he was far too heavy to carry. The dream was dead...
...shooting guard Jim Goffredo. “It took the wind out of us, [and] it was tough for us to bounce back.” Harvard lost by 13 the next night against Penn, then dropped the next two to Brown and Yale, effectively ending any chance to climb back into the league title picture. Three more defeats followed, capped by a blowout at the hands of Cornell, before Harvard beat Columbia to snap the streak and salvage Senior Night. The Crimson’s late-season collapse mirrored the 2002-03 season’s disappointing finish, when...
...purposes, the University professionalized its real estate management, often at the cost of Cambridge residents.In the late 1970s, Cambridge was cornered by conflicting housing and budgetary pressures.Like the rest of the country, it was recovering from the recession of the 1970s, and housing prices were just beginning their unabated climb that has continued to today. It was becoming harder and harder to find an affordable place to live in Cambridge.Meanwhile, the city was faced with mounting deficits that made it difficult to subsidize housing for Cantabrigians.But Harvard had financial woes of its own. Even though it was Cambridge?...